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| 114 APPENDIX III. SELECTED COMMDNIST FRONT ORGANIZATIONS The list of Communist Front Organizations given here is not exhaustive. The Party is prolix in producing such groups, and many flourish only for short periods of time. .The group selected is representative of wide fields of activi- ty. It is given in alphabetical order, except for those which were not available at the time the first stencils were typed. AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR TEE PROTECTION OF FOREIGN BORN 23 West 26th Street. New York City This organization is a compact non-membership group in the sense that it does not have membership meetings. The organization does have participating members and sponsors. Its actual purpose is to provide legal assistance to aliens and foreign-born citizens, as well as propagandize in behalf of their rights. Its program has paralleled that of the Communist Movement for a number of years. Its current officers are Stanley Novrak, Chairman; Isidore Englander, Treasurer; Abner Greene, Executive Secretary; Carol King, counsel; Marjory Spector, Naturalization Aid Director. These persons have been alleged to have close Communist affiliations. Its sponsors include the following people: Professor Edith Abbott, Boris Artzybasheff, Professor G. A. Borgese, Rt. Rev. John M. Cooper, Joseph Curran, Dr. Walter Damrosch, Dr. Frederick May Eliot, Dr. Guy Stanton Ford, Waldo Frank, Dr. Rudolph Ganz, Dr. Karen Homey,' Fanny Hurst, Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw, Robert Morss Lovett, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Edward_G. Robinson, Reid Robinson, Cesar Saerchinger, Lisa Sergio, Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Donald (|gden Stewart, Professor Oswald Veblen. HEADQUARTERS The headquarters of this organization, as indicated above, is at 23 West 26th Street. This is the building which is commonly known as the Institute for International Democracy. It was purchased in 1943 by Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Edith C. Field and Max Yergan. In addition to the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born being housed in these quarters there are also a nuLiber of other groups including such organizations as the Council on African Affairs, the Council for Pan-American Democracy, and others. ATMS AND PURPOSES In March, 1945, the organization distributed a pamphlet entitled "The Challenge of our liiimigration Laws.n On the last page of this pamphlet the following program as pursued by the organization is set forthj 1. "Increased participation by the foreign born in the political life of the nation. 2. "The exposure and routing of fifth column and anti- democratic elements in the foreign born communities. |