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1 SL 161-1439 A-P-P-E~N~D~I-X AMERICAN LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND DEMOCRACY The Guide to subversive Organizations and Publica- tions, revised and published December 1, 1961, to supersede Guide published on January 2, 1957, prepared and released by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., states as follows: "1. Cited as subversive and Communist. (Attorney General Tom Clark, letters to Loyalty Review Board, released June 1, 1948, and September 21, 1948.) "2. Established in the United States in 1937 as successor to the American League Against War and Fascism ‘in an effort to create public sentiment on behalf of a foreign policy adapted to the interests of the Soviet Union, * * * The American League for Peace and Democracy * * * was designed to conceal Communist control, in accordance with the new tactics of the Communist Inter- national.' (Attorney General Francis Biddle, Congressional Record, September 24, 1942, pp. 7683 and 7684.) "3. #‘'The largest of the Communist ‘front' movements in the United States is the American League for Peace and Democracy, formerly known as the American League Against War and Fascism, and, at the time of its inception, as the United States Congress Against War. * * * The league contends publicly that it is not a Communist-front movement, yet at the very beginning Communists dominated it. Earl Browder was its vice president.’ ‘An examina- tion of the program of the American League will show that the organization was nothing more nor less than a bold advocate of treason.’ It was formed at an ‘American Congress for Peace and Democracy.' (Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Annual Report, House Report 2, January 3,