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COMMUNISTS Comrade Eisler's Turn...
Record in Congress: Made national reputation as able, dogged, unhysterical investigator of Communism. As member of House Un-American Activities Committee, presented the cases against Gerhard Eisler and Eugene Dennis, 1947; took part in investigation of Communism in Hollywood; co-author of Mundt-Nixon Bill requiring registration of Communists. Was largely responsible for resolute pursuit of Hiss investigation, repeatedly saved the case from being dropped by going out himself and digging up facts. Said Whittaker Chambers in Witness: "Richard Nixon made the Hiss Case possible." Nixon, however, is no McCarthyite (he did not applaud McCarthy's speech...
This is the first time since the Lecture Committee was formed 15 years ago that speakers who have not been proven subversive have been banned. However, Gerhard Eisler and two other avowed Communists were denied permission to speak. As far as anyone at Michigan has been able to determine, Greene and McPhaul are not Communists...
...other recipients of Henry awards, which are given annually to United States students for study at Oxford and Cambridge, are Robert K. Woetzel of Columbia and Colin T. Eisler of Yale. Income from the Henry Fund also provides fellowships which enable English students to study at Harvard and Yale...
...Communists started it by proposing to reunite East and West Germany (TIME, Oct. 8). They hoped to disrupt rearmament, and candidly said so. "You don't have to be a Columbus to make that discovery," said. Red Propagandist Gerhart Eisler...