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"conference For World P Firing Line of ‘Rogust as 1955 reported t thee BROOKS had been_af 1 28 subversive organizations. He has supported the American “Committee For Democracy and Intellectual Freedom; League of American Writers; Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and was listed” ‘ass Contributing Editor to the Communist periodical New Masses. BROOKS was listed as a Vice Chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America and Director of the Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions. (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 331, 976 and 1648; "Congressional Record", 10-20-42; and HUAC, Testimony of Walter S.Steele Regarding Communist Activities In The United States, 1947, pages 447 and 148). STUABE-CHASE, ACLU National Committee member has been affiliates with h_the olToutae"pubversive Organizations: American Committee To Save. Refugees; Russian Reconstruction Farms,.Inc.; Public Use of Arts Committee; Consumers National Federation; Descendants of the American Revolution and Friends of the Soviet Union. In 1948, CHASE signed a letter denouncing the Thomas Committee (House Committee On Un-American Activities) on behalf of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, a "Communist front for writers, artists and musicians." (See HUAC, Appendix IX, 1944, pages 362,472, 584, 659, 689 and 759; California Legislature, Fourth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-Americap’ Activities, 1948, page 330; and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizatipfis and Publications In The United States, 1951, page 84). “RUFUS ACLU National Committee me of the Southern Regional Council, has beén af fit the following Versive organizations: American Committ: cracy. and Intellectual Freedom, American Committee se for Protection of Foreign Born “and” the American Council on Soviet Relations, He was an Executive Board member of the Southern Conference For Human Welfare, sponsored the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace in 1949 and was affiliated with the Progressive Citizens of America.: (See "The New York Times", 10-17-55; HUAC, Appendix Ix, 1944, pages 331, 349, 369 and 1585; fd HUAC, Review of the Scientific and Cultural ce, 1949, pages 33 and 58). and an incorporator FSsanother ACLU National Committee member was reported to have been affiliated w with: Ts Subversive organizations according — to the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firin g Line,~ ‘page 15°" "According to page 9 of the subversive American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born's 1953 . pamphlet entitled The Walter-McCarran Law, COUNTS was named as having made the following statement before the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization in October 1952: ‘Under a fresh and wholesome approach to immigration, permanent-resident aliens and naturalized citizens - except for cases of fraud or illegal entry - would no longer be subjected to the archaic and anachronistic penalty of deportation which also should be eradicated from our immigration laws." OB TE , ACLU National Committee member | was s mentioned as W the. e Civil Rights Congress campaign "directly aimed agains€ the ional Committee on Un-American Activities and in - opposition to all legislative efforts to destroy Communist forces in the United States." The-Civil Rights Congress is now a defunct subversive organization. In 1950, DOBIE sponsored the National Conference to Defend the Bill of Rights which was held under the auspices of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born end was also affiliated with the Committee of One Thousand in 1948. DOBIE also sponsored the subversive Mid-Century a" . ¥