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President Roosevelt freed Earl Browder, former General Secretary of the C.P., from Atlanta penitentiary, after he had served 14 months of his four-year sentence for passport fraud. His release, explained the President, "would have a tendency to promote national unity and allay any feelings which may exist" about Browder's having been persecuted for his political views. His Hitler-style mustache shaved off, thinner and greyer than when he started his term, the Kansas-born Communist leader hopped a train. Out of jail, out of a job, temporarily out of a cause, Browder went quietly home to Yonkers...
...case of Earl Browder, Communist Party General Secretary imprisoned four years for a passport violation, will have an airing here tonight when Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Executive Secretary of the Citizens' Committee to Free Earl Browder, speaks in Emerson D at 7:30 o'clock...
Basing its appeal on the excessively large penalty he received, the Committee maintains that Browder was jailed for his political beliefs rather than the violation...
Flat on his back in a San Francisco hospital, Tom Mooney, at 59, had only a few visitors, only a few money letters from friends. From his bed he conducted a feeble campaign to free Communist Earl Browder. Last week anticlimactic death came to Tom Mooney...
...most democratic world power, but there are ever-present threats within as well as without which demand a liberal dose of "eternal vigilance." What about Georgia's Governor Talmadge, the Dies and Rapp-Coudert committees, the hounding intolerance of the "justice" dealt out to Bridges and Browder? These are sinister ripples which could easily become a whirlpool of suppression. However fine the direction of Roosevelt's foreign policy, what about the hypocrisy and backhandedness of his means? What about the banning from the ballot of the Socialists in many states last November, and the New York business men's conference...