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| 126. SELECTED CCMflDNIST ERQNT ORGANIZATIONS appointments." This pamphlet hailed the decision of the War Department along the following lines: "With regard to the question of rendering Communists and Communist sympathizers eligible for Army Commission, we support the War Department's position as reported in the press, that in granting Commissions and making various other Army assignments 'the basic consideration is not .the. propriety of the individual's opinions, but his loyalty to the United States.»" After the short statement there is a long list of some two or three hundred signers, a number of whom have lent their names to other Communist groups and movements in the past. With regard to the pamphlet itself, it has been report- ed that in several areas the Communist Political Association assisted in obtain* ing names of signers for the statement* In addition to the publication mentioned above, the organization, on numerous occasions, distributes pamphlets on various issues which pamphlets can be generally said to be in favor of the Communist sido of the particular issue. It also distributes news releases at least monthly, if not more frequently, most of which pertain to Legislation in which the rights of individuals figure. NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD 16 East 41st Street New York City______ The National Lawyers Guild was established in 1937 by a group of persons who met in Washington, D.C» It was stated that the National Lawyers Guild did not have the intention to compete with the American Bar Association but that it was not in agreement with the policies of the American Bar Association with respect to reasonable business regulations, Social Security, labor Legislation and child labor. It subsequently supported unequivocally the reorganization plan to increase the size of the United States Supreme Court. On September 5, 1939, Earl Browder, then Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States, testified before the Dies Committee in Washington, D.C., at which time he was asked as to the organizations being used by the Communist Party as transmission belts." Among the organizations which Browder admitted as being used as a transmission belt was the National Lawyers Guild. .On June 6, 1940, it was publicly announced that Adolph A. Berle, Jr., then Assistant Secretary of State, resigned from the National Lawyers Guild because as he- was quoted, the National Lawyers Guild is "not prepared to take any stand which conflicts with the Communist Party line." At'approximately this same time the then Attorney General of the United States, Robert H. Jackson also resigned from the National Lawyers Guild, The principal officers of this organization are its president, Robert ',.. Kenny, and Martin Popper, its Executive Secretary. Its primary function is to issue the National Lawyers Guild Review, a bi-monthly publication, t^ issue its official statements to the press and to occasionally hold conferences and meetings* Recently, during the United Nations Conference, the organization was active in furnishing speakers to discuss the Dumbarton Oaks Agreement and the Bretton Woods proposals. The two representatives of the organization at the United Nations Conference were Robert W. Kenny and Martin Popper. |