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ores - tone ind ae - -*He wrote us for tn.c ‘i.ion and we prepared a ¢ 4) on the communist ,affiliations of Mr, .ughes, along with copies o. some of hie "poetry." This pastor was able to engage in newspaper exposes warning his towns- people es to whom Mr. Hughes actually represented, The newspaper, as they sometimes do, sided with the radioal, and refused to publish Hughes’ “Goodbye Christ," so that the people could judge for themselves as to the charecter of the person scheduled to speak to their ohildren in high school, A Congregetional preacher went out of his way to praise Hughes’ publioly, This is not surprising when we realize that there are somewhere around 6,000 clergymen paying duas to the Communist Party in the U.S.A,, according to former top communists themselves, we hope to print @ detailed account of this entire story in the near future. 3) On March 12, the front page of a Detroit newspaper carried an account of the aid which the Lutheran Research Society gave to the State Legise lature Committee Investigating Communist activity in Michigan, ‘We have been in conference with memters of this official committee which is working with Governor Sigler and have helped provide primary source material wherever it was needsde . 4) Our Society has heen asked to cooperate with the United states Government Committee Investigating Un-American Activities and we have pledged our support most wholeheartedly. This committee and the Federal Sureau of Investigation receive copies of every piece of iiterature that we mail out. . 5) Then a semieofficial magazine of the Lutheran Church began to pratse Sornhunist-sympathizers and other unsavory anti-Christian characters, a report was prepared for a district pastoral conference and action is now being taken to correct the situation. (You will receive more details on this in the near future.) 6) Our files and resources are being used to aid various projects which @im to protect, with God's help, Christian Americanism, The information you recently received on the discriminatory policiss of the Civilian Production Administration which contained a copy of our lstter to Presi-~- dent Truman, ts already bearing fruite Some of our country's noted Senators and Representatives have become concerned and are looking into the matter, according to letters they have sent to our office. ‘le have received sundry information that ssme officials of the CPA intend to keep fundamentalist churches from building as much as possible, Our efforts, with your help, along with that of thousands of other wide- avake Christiens in the United States can stop such evil practices on the part of evil men in a gevernment bureau. 7 7) "ith the help of other Christian, American groups we are successfully circulating petitions asking President Truman to take the neceasary step to outlaw communism, not only in name and identity, but in actuality. nly when communism, Which definitely pledges itself to destroy our governsent, our freedoms, and our ohurchss, is outlawed, can it be - - rogarded as illegal, Then, and then only, will it be possible to eradi- cate communists from the posts in the governnent, in education, in in- dustry. in the churches, ete. which. they now hold because the Communist {Party is a legal party. ‘Ye shall, God willing, watt tpon President - - ‘fruman in a few weeks, bearing the petitions which many of you helped to Oirculate, If anyone reading this would olrevjate a petition asking ©: ~. Truman to outlaw communism, write as and we shal mall ‘whatever: qapntity you can advantageously use, Zach petition has spece for 27 alan e fii. il, governnen ‘action ta taken.