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...Manhattan at 10:45 one evening last week Earl Russell Browder, general secretary of the U. S. Communist Party, was scheduled to speak for 15 minutes over the Columbia Broadcasting System. It was the first time a full-fledged, thoroughgoing Red had ever appeared officially on a national radio network. That morning readers of Hearst's New York American, glancing down the list of Station WABC's evening programs, found Boake Carter at 7:45, Cordell Hull at 8:30, Walter O'Keefe at 9, Ed Wynn at 9:30. The program note for 10:45: "Talk...
...National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
Columbia Broadcasting System felt obliged to issue a statement explaining that it had scheduled the Browder address in accordance with its policy of granting free time to representatives of all recognized political parties. An engineer, it promised, would be ready to cut the speaker off the air instantly if he departed by so much as a word from his carefully censored text to sound the tocsin of revolt. It also announced that it had allotted Red-fearing Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. an equal amount of time on its network at the same hour next evening to answer Red Browder...
...advance publicity counted for anything, Communist Browder must have had a notable audience when he stepped up to the microphone. Some Columbia patrons were disappointed, however. In Boston it was announced in advance that seven New England stations affiliated with the system would substitute a program of dance music for the Red secretary's speech, though their listeners would hear Representative Fish's reply to it next evening. Most Pacific Coast stations also refused to broadcast the speech...
WHAT is COMMUNISM?-Earl Browder -Vanguard ($2). The General Secretary of the Communist Party, U. S. A., speaks his official piece...