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Letter to Director NY 62-0 a . Mya! } The New York Office has| never -cond! da any investigation of CARL SANDBURG, however, there-“are numerous references to him in the files. According to the "Daily Worker," SANDBURG was a speaker at a Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee dinner held during December, 1944, honoring BILL GROPPER. According to House Committee’ on Un-American Activity records, SANDBURG was listed as @ sponsor in 1938 of the "Friends of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade." In January, 1944, according to the "Daily Worker," SANDBURG was a sponsor of a meeting sponsored the "New Masses" to honor the i , 1948, listed certain "big name” non- Communists who had been roped in by American reds to aid the World Youth Festival in Prague. CARL SANDBURG was listed as such an individual together with Mrs. WENDELL WILKIE, SINCLAIR LEWIS and others. The foregoing is being submitted for the Bureau's infor- mation. No further action recommended by New York. 100 -352978-7 .