Speech #790161641

Now we have struck pay dirt on this Barsky matter. Barsky is doing everything he possibly can to intimidate our committee and to influence the Members of Congress against it. I do not think either the Dies committee or this Committee on UnAmerican Activities has ever investigated an organization or an individual that has needed to be investigated more than this Joint AntiFascist Refugee Committee. They 4re the ones that have been trying to bring in Communists to this country. We have testimony before our committee within the last few days that every person. every refugee. that this Joint AntiFascist Committee has tried to bring into the United States had a Communist record. a Communist record over in Hungary or France or Spain or somewhere else. Yet they have had contributed to the organization hundreds of thousands of dollars from persons who did not know just what the Joint AntiFascist Refugee Committee was trying to do. They will not tell us what they did with these vast sums of money they have collected. nor will they show us a single paper in their files. But they are doing this: They are getting in touch with Members of Congress. telling them that this is an unAmerican committee. They have used those words. Others have used them. and probably the leading Communistfront organization today is this Joint AntiFascist Refugee Committee. And I want to tell you this: We are going right to the bottom of it. I think every member of our committee. both on the Democratic side and on the Republican side. is resolved to look Into the Joint AntiFascist Refugee Committee. and the leaders of it. thoroughly. You can count on it that when we make our report to this Congress it will astound you all.