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esac pun 41889 Copy of item in The New Leader ,of Merch 7,°1941, in Victor Riesel's | eolum, "Heard on the Left": From our Washington outposts comes news that ene of Hew York's lesding liberals put in front of Herold (the corrdesk's delight) Ickes sufficient evidence to prove thet Kenneth “Weslie's Protestant Digest, which was hort lest Tuesdey to 600 clergymen, j including 1 Biskops of the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Churches, is one of the most subtle trensmission belts ever Hi twirled by the C.P. . - : Ickes wes edvised to include the Stelinists in his attecke on the Fifth Colum during his speech et Tuesdey night's dinner-foruz “* here in New York. But friend Ickes lerbasted Lindbergh, Coughlin, LaxrenceDennis and Kervin Kytart as mer who "would secrifice democratic idesls and Christien civilization" but nary a word this cabinet mexber sey about the Communists - he might have ehocked PE's Falpt—ngersoll who wae seated alongside at the speeker table. Nor did any of the venerable gentlemen who were 60 much concerned that night over Christier democracy and civilization, know thet the mecgezine sponsoring the banquet had endorsed the Kezi-Soviet pact, and in a recent edition hed favorebly reported, under the Dean of Canterbury's red by-line, the British Communists' drive for peace with Hitler .... : Sot agaeunmean, & re x tr * * *