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vr gt a Se . @> ; : _ THE AMERICAN LEGiwit Prepared and Distributed By The National Americanism Commission, P.O, Box 1055, Indianapolis, Indiana Subscription rate $3.00 per year aad VOL. NO. -V, NO. 25, , December 15, 1956 3 INDEXED: 47.1 4 Uv AMERICAN CIVIL ES IN, PART III «. ' TAY. Readers wild. recall that the October 15th and November ‘1st issues of The Firing Line were devoted to reports r. ative to recent activities of the:American Civil Liberties Union, 1 ACLU). With national offices located “at 170 Fifth Avenue, New York City, this 36 year old organization,::: together with 19 state affiliates, claims a total membership of about . 35,000. Continuing The American Legion's investigation of the ACLU, this issue of The Firing Line studies another phase of its background and current activities. (See ACLU "Civil Liberties", February 1956, page 3 and ACLU 35th Annual Report: "Clearing The Main Channels", 1955, pages 132-134), - ‘e DIRECTORS OF ACLU - NATIONAL LEADERSHIP Based upon a September 1956 letterhead, the following 24 individuals _ are listed as members of the Board of Directors or National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union: BISHOP JAMES C, BAKER, ACLU National ‘Committee member was a 1947 Vice President of the Methodist Federation For Social Action. According to Federation For Social Action was formed by the Communist Party as a religious front organization. In 1948, BAKER sponsored the Committee of One Thousand, a "Communist created and controlled front organization"; and was listed as a 1951 initiator and sponsor of the National Committee To Repeal the McCarran Act, another Communist front. (See HUAC, Review of the Methodist Federation For Social Action, 1952, page 82; Committee of One Thousand letterhead, 1948; "Daily Worker", 3-23-51, page 2; Internal Security Subcommittee, "A Handbook For Americans", 1956, page 91 and HUAC, Guide To Subversive Organizations and Publications In The United States, 1951, page 38). been cited as subversive and Communist accor¢ing to a report in the February 1, 1955 issue of The Firing Line, page 14.° A World War I draft evader, BALDWIN testified before the Special Committee To Investigate Communist Propaganda in the United States in 1930 “which was to the effect that the American Civil. Liberties Union upholds the right of aliens or nationals to advocate murder, instrument of violence and compulsion. Communism is theo kSze-fpécial™ \"' Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of cAmerican’ Pi paganda Activities In The United States, Volume I, 1938, pages 1617) 468and 3533). ; : INE OOLARS we INDEXED-56 arn 4 COPYRIGHT 1956 BY THE AMERICAN LEGION a Sraeae i REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR PART WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION 1S PROHIBITED. Le ma DECSI I r