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...Communist was the German Gerhart Eisler, who was hauled up before the old Dies Committee, now under the chairmanship of New Jersey's John Parnell Thomas. Eisler was obstreperous. The committee leveled a number of charges against him and ordered him rejugged (see below...
...loyal American would criticize the committee's action. Eisler, perhaps the key figure of a number of his ilk who are boring from within, has no loyalty except to Communism. He wants to replace a free U.S. democracy with a sovietized state. This was a case of clearly discernible danger to the U.S., and the U.S. could applaud the Thomas Committee and the FBI for being on the alert...
...wondering about the makeup of the upper level Commie leadership here during his period of Party membership after 1935 were, he explains, the shadowy figures under seemingly assumed names whom he gradually came to look upon as intermediaries with the USSR (one "Edwards" he feels to be the Gerhart Eisler now in the limelight...
...Said Eisler: "Ah, believe me, it is not a pleasure to be a Communist in this country. . . . And now they won't let me go back where I came from...
...Their brother is Hanns Eisler, left-wing Hollywood cinema composer. No stranger to Moscow he wrote a battle song, Komintern, many others hailed by the Daily Worker as Marxist music...