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Peace is mainly something to argue about at America's Town Meeting of the Air. For the last four years this program, Radio's No. 1 public forum, has provided weekly October-to-May battles on all manner of current topics, with headliners (Ickes, Eleanor Roosevelt, Earl Browder, Wendell Willkie, etc.) in the main bouts, and audiences winding up each week's card with a free...
From the books of communist units and affiliates, and from two Party almoners (including Earl Browder's suave, little-known brother William), the committee adduced that $10,164,730.91 passed through 43 Party organization accounts between 1935 and mid-1939. Brother William as treasurer of the New York State Party took in $1,302,177.13, disbursed $1,296,997.80 in 1937-38. National headquarters in Manhattan, which gets a fraction of total revenues from local and State units, banked $258,316 in 1937; $191,732 in 1938, and $113,146 in the first half...
...that year, he said, Stalin swallowed the U. S. party, cleaned out its personnel, put in his puppet Browder. To Browder's claim that funds no longer flowed through the Moscow pipe line, Witness Gitlow replied that they used to come at the rate of $100,000 a year, probably still...
More embarrassing to Earl Browder was an admission he let slip that he traveled through Europe during the last two years on a false U. S. passport. Asked to tell what name he had traveled under, Comrade Browder declined to answer on the ground that doing so might tend to incriminate him. Well might he be cautious. Day before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had warned that all travelers on fake passports would be prosecuted if apprehended (possible penalty: $2,000 fine and five years in jail...
...previous knowledge of U. S. Communist goings-on the evidence added nothing. But it did prove one thing: that Earl Browder's party is still hog-tied to the dictates, the machinations of Moscow, wherever they may lead...