No final decision has been made, but certain groups in the State Department are pressing for a Fulbright-type cultural exchange program with the Soviet Union. Under the proposed scheme—which was not mentioned until after Congress adjourned—the United States would foot the entire bill.
Daily Worker editor John Gates was attacked by the Sovie.t magazine Kommunist last week as a ’’revisionist” and a “pseudo-Communist”—an indication that Gates, like Joseph Clark, the Worker’s foreign editor who resigned a fortnight ago, is on the way out. . . . The Communist-dominated Emergency Civil Liberties Union staged a twin purpose rally at Carnegie Hall September 20, a) to urge abolition of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and b) to pay honor to the Supreme Court for “its recent decisions in favor of civil liberties.”




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