New York City. as shown in a leaflet announcing the rally. The American Committee for * * * has been cited as a Communistfront group which defended Communist teachers (reports of the Special Committee on UnAmerican Activities dated June 25. 1942. and March 29. 1944). A letterhead of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. a booklet entitled "The Registration of Aliens." and a letterhead of their fourth annual conference which was held March 23. 1940. contain the name of Otto Klineberg in lists of sponsors of that organization. The program of the fifth national conference of the group which was held in Atlantic City. N.J.. March 2930. 1941. named Professor Klineberg as a panel speaker and as a sponsor of the conference. he was identified in that source as a professor at Columbia University. The Attorney General of the United States cited the American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born as subversive and Communist (press release of June 1 and Sept. 21. 1948. redesignated Apr. 27. 1953). The Special Committee * * * cited the organization as "one of the oldest auxiliaries of the Communist Party in the United States" (report of Mar. 29. 1944. also cited in report dated June 25. 1942). Professor Klineberg was identified as a "representative individual" who advocated lifting the embargo against Spain in a booklet entitled "These Americans Say: * * " _(p. 9). prepared and published by the Coordinating Committee To Lift the Embargo. cited as one of a number of front organizations which was set up during the Spanish Civil War by the Communist Party and through which the party carried on a great deal of agitation. (From a report of the special committee * * * dated Mar. 19. 1944.) It was reported in New Masses of December 3. 1940 (p. 28). that Otto Klineberg had signed an open letter to save Luiz Carlos Prestes which was sent by the Council for Pan American Democracy to the President of Brazil.
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