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Other bouquets went to the Rev. Dr. William Howard Melish of Brooklyn, chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, to members of N.C.A.S.F. and half a dozen allied groups. Among them: retired Harvard Professor Ralph Barton Perry, ex-Ambassador to Russia Joe Davies, Atom Scientist Albert Einstein, onetime California Attorney General Bob Kenny (now national vice-chairman of the Progressive Citizens of America...
...reaction of those blessed was mixed. Pastor Melish was highly gratified by this "unsolicited" tribute. Albert Einstein refused to comment. In California, Bob Kenny tried to laugh it off. Said he: "I imagine Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
Chairman of American-Soviet Friendship is Rev. William Howard Melish, 36-year-old associate rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity of Brooklyn. The Rev. Mr. Melish makes no bones about admiring the not-so-holy trinity of Marx, Lenin & Stalin. He wrote in the Communist New Masses that he was "impressed by the substantial truth of Marxist methods of social and economic analysis." He is a supporter of Manhattan's Jefferson School of Social Science, a Communist incubator. In the latest Reporter, the Council's four-page bimonthly which Rev. Mr. Melish edits...
Last week Bradford Young arrived in Brooklyn, resumed his old post at Holy Trinity Church. His superior, Rev. Dr. John Howard Melish, welcomed him genially: "I think of him as my son. Speaking for myself, I am delighted that the San Francisco church doesn't want him." In San Francisco the real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered...
Last year under the leadership of W. H. Melish '31, president of the Socialist Club, a fortnightly publication called The Socialist was printed, to which contributions were made by several Socialist leaders, and by other college liberal organizations. Activities, however, will be suspended this winter, but it is hoped that another year will see its reorganization...