TheNZThrower
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In one of their articles, the Epoch Times makes the following vague claim:
Now according to Wikipedia's page on Jemison, citing a 1938 NYT article, the AIF was funded by an anti-semitic organisation called ''James True Associates'':
If anyone can procure further resources corroborating any of the information I provided, it would be welcome.
The ''lawyer's association'' was the ACLU, and the socialist in question was ACLU co-founder Roger Baldwin. Their source for their claim is this 1938 hearing by the House of Un-American Activities, specifically from a statement by American Indian Federation (AIF) member Alice Lee Jemison. She claims that Baldwin advocated for communism in his Harvard yearbook:The founder of one lawyers’ association with a nationwide presence is a self-avowed socialist who believes in public ownership and says that his ultimate goal is to establish communism.
I wasn't able to find any further source corroborating the claim, so any help would be appreciated.Roger N. Baldwin, executive director of the ACLU, is a graduate of Harvard, class of 1905. In the 30-year class book of that class, published in 1935, Mr Baldwin has this to say about himself and his activities in the ACLU:
''I have continued directing the unpopular fight for the rights of agitation. As director of the ACLU; I have been to Europe several times, mostly in connection with international radical activities... I am opposed to production for private profit... I am for socialism, disarmamament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion... I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class... Communism is the goal.''
Now according to Wikipedia's page on Jemison, citing a 1938 NYT article, the AIF was funded by an anti-semitic organisation called ''James True Associates'':
Per Wikipedia, citing historian Samuel Walker's work of ''In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU.'', they noted that the HUAC never was able to definitively state that the ACLU was Communist in the same hearing mentioned above:(HUAC chairman Martin Dies) gave the press copies of a letter from an anti-Semitic organization, James True Associates, soliciting funds for the AIF.
One final fact I would like to note is that Baldwin eventually became opposed to the Soviet Union after being made aware of its atrocities. In a 1953 booklet titled ''A New Slavery, Forced Labor: The Communist Betrayal of Human Rights'', Baldwin stated that:[HUAC's] 1939 report concluded equivocally that it could not ''definitively state whether or not'' the ACLU was ''a communist organisation.''
Hence though he may have been a socialist, his communist sympathies have all but vanished by then.The Soviet Police State, and with it its servants, the Communist parties, were revealed as being politically and culturally no different from the fascist states, and through the deception to lofty claims of salvation, even more dangerous to human freedom.
If anyone can procure further resources corroborating any of the information I provided, it would be welcome.