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Conference for Peace; Methodist: Federation For Social Action and the Committee
of One Thousand. (See HUAC, Appendix 1x, 1944, Pages 659, 843, 984, 1247 and
1464; HUAC, Report on the Communist Peace Offensive, 1951, Page 149; Huac,
Review of the Methodist Federation For Social Action, 1952, page 81; and "New
2QORO' @ Vice Chairman of the ACLU Board of Directors.
In 1950, MISS KENYON appeared before a subcommittee of the Senate. Committee
On Foreign Relations and admitted under oath that she had sponsored the
National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc. in 1948, and was .
affiliated with the Conference on Pan-American Democracy; League of Women
Shoppers; American Committee ‘for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; Lawyer's
Committee on American Relations with Spain and was a member of the Advisory
Committee of. Descendants of the American Revolution, (See Report, state
Department” Employee Loyalty Investigation, 1950, page 44), : :
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S,MAX .LERNERy<another ACLU National Committee member has a record
of affiliations with subversive organizations according to the 1954 Report
of Tax-Exempt Foundations, pages 325-328, "On June 2, 1949, the Daily
Worker, page 2,-reported that LERNER, identified as columnist for the New
York Post had asserted that the trial against the leaders of the Communist
fork Post
Party 'has no business being in court. I don't see how anyone with a
rudimentary knowledge of the history of Communist movements can doubt the
basic rightness of William Z. Foster's plea, in his long manifesto, that
under American conditions the attempt to use it would be fantastic,'"
LERNER has been affiliated with the following subversive organizations:
American Student Union; American Congress for Peace and Democracy; Frontier
" Films and American Committee for Democracy and Intellectual Freedom. He has
Soviet Union, a cited “Communist enterprise signed by hundreds of well-
known Communists and fellow travelers," (See HUAC, Guide To Subversive
+ Organizations and Publications in the United States, 1951, page 55).
ROBERT LYND_is_a member of the ACLU National Committee. According
toa congressisnalyveport, LYND has been affiliated with the American Committee
for Protection of Foreign Born; League of American Writers and the National
Council of American-Soviet Friendship. In 1940 he signed a statement defending
the Communist Party and was a member of the Board of Directors of the subversive
. American Russian Institute. In 1949 Lynp Sponsored the Scientific and
Cultural Conference for World Peace and was listed on a 1956 letterhead as-
an Initiator of the National Committee to Repeal the McCarran Act. This
latter organization was cited as a Communist front by the Internal Security
Subcommittee this year as one that defends "the cases of Communist lawbreakers,"
(See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 354, 980, 1096, 1125 and 1200; HuAC,
Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, 1949, page
59; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook for Americans," 1956, page 91;
and National Committee to Repeal the McCarran “Act letterhead, 1956).
PENHEIMER, member of the ACLU National Committee has
mes in past by The Firing Line. In June 1954,
security clearance and access to classified government
States Atomic Energy Commission. This Commission
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