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Chief Charge. Back in Manhattan the committee returned to the charge, made by Grover Aloysius Whalen, onetime New York Police Commissioner, and supported by dubious documents, that Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet commercial agency in the U. S., is also the secret U. S. headquarters for Soviet political propaganda and agitation (TIME, May 12). At the hearings, bomb squad detectives lined the walls. A Russian monarchist sat just behind the committee to prompt and whisper. Curious women fanned and gasped in the stuffy room...
Refutation. Prime Amtorg witness was Peter A. Bogdanov, thickset, blue-eyed, bearded Amtorg board chairman. He explained the history of Amtorg? founded in 1924 as a U. S. concern owned by the Soviet Bank of Foreign Trade. In six years, he said, it has bought $580,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for export to Russia, secured $30,000,000 in credits from U. S. banks. Its trade had declined lately as a result of world outbursts against the Soviet's anti-religious program (TIME, March 10) and attacks upon it by Mr. Whalen. A Russian revolutionary since...
...special committee of the House of Representatives began a thorough investigation of Soviet incitement of Communist activities in the U. S., particularly of the Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet fiscal agent...
Other Walsh testimony: 1) Soviet trade through such organizations as Amtorg Corp. is just a lure to influence capitalist business and conceal "Red" propaganda; 2) Negroes are being dangerously stirred by Communist agitators; 3) strikes and labor troubles are deliberately precipitated not to improve working conditions and wages but to arouse mass discontent; 4) U. S. Communists are taken to Moscow for special training to become revolutionary agitators in the U. S.; 5) on May 1, 1930 a red flag floated over the University of Chicago for two hours; 6) no man may have more than 30 wives...
...these and many another U. S. paper are proudly included in Soviet Economic Development and American Business, a new book (Liveright, $1.50) by one of Stalin's closest friends, Saul G. Bron, moonfaced Board Chairman of Arcos, the London Soviet trade office, recently Board Chairman for three years of Amtorg in New York...