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Last week C. I. O.'s Pacific Coast leader, Longshoreman Harry Bridges, whom patrioteers have tried to get deported as an alien and a Communist, wired President Roosevelt: "Nazi agents and sympathizers working on planes of the North American Aviation Company ... at Los Angeles, and on planes of the Consolidated Aircraft Company at San Diego, are engaged in wholesale sabotage. . . . Abundant evidence and official records now exist to prove these drastic charges...
...Court a Judiciary subcommittee offered, and Felix Frankfurter accepted, a chance to let him appear not in person but through counsel. Dapper Dean Acheson, onetime Under Secretary of the Treasury, appeared for him and heard an assortment of minor patriots condemn his client as a Red, a Jew, an alien. One condemner was rich, blonde Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling of Chicago, who based her Frankfurterphobia largely on his long membership in the American Civil Liberties Union (which once defended her right to attack the New Deal on the radio...
Wrote New Dealer Cummings, whose department has prosecuted many a U. S. citizen for false income tax statements: "The alternatives open to the alien were to remain in Germany and be reduced to a state of penury and serfdom, or to seek another life in another land. ... I advise . . . granting him a visa...
...faced the President hard upon the first: the major threat to his Administration which Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities seemed to be rapidly becoming. Mr. Dies put out last week a report which loudly attacked Secretary of Labor Perkins for "unbelievable laxity" in handling alien agitators, Secretary of the Interior Ickes for baiting the Committee, Secretary of Commerce Hopkins for harboring Communists in WPA. Mr. Dies demanded $150,000 to continue his investigation, and the President learned that many another Congressman's mail was filled with warnings that Mr. Dies's request must...
Sullivan based his objections upon-Frankfurter's "alien affiliations" and upon his association with the Civil Liberties Union. Sullivan cited a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Frankfurter which compared the latter's ideas with Trotsky's. When asked for Frankfurter's reply Sullivan said he didn't have...