AJCommittee Research Reveals Extent of Anti-Semitism During World War

As a liberal, Walter Goodman,
author of "The Committee — The
Extraordinary Career of the House
Committee on Un-American Activi-
ties," published by Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, proposes we continue
"to oppose the Committee, con-
tinue to champion the political
freedoms of persons who, we
know, mock us for soft-headed-
ness, and make clear that we are
doing so not out of misplaced af-
fection for totalitarians of the left
but out of reverence for liberty."
In this spirit of "reverence for
liberty," Goodman, in a volume
so revealing that it is the most
important compilation on the his-
tory of the Committee ever com-
piled, presents the basic facts
about the Committee, the impor-
tant issues that emanated from
its exploitations, the hunts that
"have offended our dearest beliefs
and attacked our cher ished
causes."
"If the House Committee on Un-
American Activities had not been
invented, there would have been
no reason for it to exist," Good-
man frankly states. In his re-
search, he introduces his readers
to the personalities who figured in
the hunts, the offenders and offen-
ded, the anti-Semites and the Nazi-
Fascist elements who presented
grave dangers to American demo-
cracy in the war era.
Under the impact of many of
Goodman's revelations, many of
the American politicians will be
smarting. The able historian-
researcher exposes the anti-
Semitism of men like the late
Congressman John Rankin and
others. He states that the coali-
tion of Southern Democrats and
Republicans was coming closer,
that Rep. Martin Dies "was a
David come to judgment on the
New Deal," that: "John Rankin
'
of Mississippi opposed the crea-
tion of an un-American activities
committee until he was assured
that it would be headed by the
Texan, Dies, and not by the Jew
(Rep. Samuel) Dickstein."
The role of Richard M. Nixon
emerges in interesting light. He
was the ultra-conservative who,
unlike extremists, did not rant at
witnesses, but at one point the
author says of him that there were
"men like Nixon who would walk
where ambition led." We are also
told that "Nixon . . . had shown
himself to be by far the most com-
petent member of the Commit-
tee." Another interesting com-
ment: that Nixon was in Dies'
words, "the only Congressman
ever to profit by anti-Communist
activities," and Dies is quoted as
having added sourly "and he pro-
fited only because he backed away
from it." Goodman adds: "Nixon's
career was famously expedited by
the Hiss case . . ." "The cunning
of Richard Nixon" is the way the
Californian who is destined for
the Presidency is described.

The Committee's investigation of
film-making and of Hollywood are
related, and good-will movements
are questioned. We are told:
"The Scott-Dmytryk film 'Cross-
fire' was a simple attack on anti-
Semitism, notably only because it
had taken Hollywood's Jewish pro-
ducers so long to get around to the
subject; it was about as subversive
as the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, which, to be
sure, was subversive enough for
John Rankin."
The role of noted anti-Semites
is frenquently referred to. "In
January 1946," we are told "while
contempt cases were in process,
the Committee devoted a day to
taking testimony from Gerald
L. K. Smith, the country's noisi-
est anti-Semite, whose past asso-
ciations included William Dud-
ley Pelley, Huey Long, Francis
Townsend and Father Coughlin
and whose current vehicle was
the America First Party."
Describing the role of Congress-
man Rankin, Goodman states:

"Ile was classed with all the
haters down South: rude, ignorant
fellows not much different in na-
ture from the farm animals which
the more affluent of them owned.
That he despised Negroes, Jews,
aliens and liberals was, to be
sure, his foremost claim to Ameri-
canism—but along with his exten-
sive hates and vaunted ignorance
went a canny mind, an energetic
temperament, and an excellent
grasp of parliamentary procedure."
There is the expose of another
anti-Semite, as indicated in the
following about Pelley:
"William Dudley Pelley was one
of those slightly cracked, slightly
crooked characters who provided
handfuls of followers and a much
larger number of opponents with
a bit of stimulation in the years
of fascism's victories. The rapidity
of his anti-Semitism was certified
by the stream of pamphlets from
his publishing operation in Ashe-
ville. 'I don't hold any hatred to-
ward any Jews in the United
States,' he told the Committee, and
a few minutes later added, 'I feel
exactly as the Nazi Party in Ger-
many felt in regard to Germany,
regarding the Jewish element in
our population, yes sir.' "
Fritz Kuhn's German propagan-
da activities are exposed, and the
attacks on the Nation, PM and
other periodicals are quoted.

The part played by Congress.
man Dickstein is extensively
analyzed. When Congressman
John McCormack was named to
conduct an investigation of Nazi
activities, Dickstein "made it
known that he had been passed
over in deference to his own
feeling that a non-Jew should
conduct this particular inquiry."
Dickstein suffered much abuse,
and the German element then
was brazen, shouting "Down

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with Dickstein" and "Heil Hit-
ler."
The Paul Reveres and other anti-
Semitic groups are exposed, and
among the revelations in Good-
man's research is this:
"Edward Sullivan, the Commit-
tee's preeminent investigator, was
dropped from the small staff for
financial reasons after the LaFol
lette Committee reminded the
press that he had been identified
in its hearings as a labor spy of

standing for the Railway Audit and
Inspection Company of Pittsburgh,
with a history of Jew-baiting and
Catholic-baiting. Sullivan, who had
worked and shared an office with
James True, inventor of the `Kike
Killer,' an instrument for bashing
in the heads of Jews, found em-
ployment after his release from
the Committee with the Ukrainian
National Federation, whose mis-
sion it was to annex the Ukraine
to the Third Reich."
Anti-Semites told the Committee
of "Jewish plots," General George
Van Horn Moseley and George E.
Deatherage, national commander
of the Knights of the White
Camelia, played their roles in in-
stigating trouble for Jews, and the
anti-Semitism of General Moseley
took the form of accusations
against refugees.
Especially arrogant was the
testimony of Fritz Kuhn, who
brazenly took a pro-Hitler stand.
The role of Father Coughlin simi-
larly is exposed.
"The endless harassment of in-
dividuals for disagreeable opin-
ions and activities has created the
greatest anxiety, revulsion, indig-

Joh nson's Final
Words on M.E.

In his State of the Union ad-
dress to Congress Tuesday night,
President Lyndon B. Johnson
spoke of "the continuing crisis
in the Middle East" and declared:
"The quest for stable peace in
the Middle East goes on in many
capitals. We fully support the
unanimous resolution of the United
Nations Security Council which
points the way. There must be a
settlement of the armed hostility
that exists in the region today.
It is a threat not only to Israel
and the Arab states, but to the
entire world."

Friday, January 17, 1969-13

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