Books: Red Hunt

THE TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICA—Martin Dies—Dodd, Mead ($2.50).

In 1938 Congress said "Oh, all right" to importunate Martin Dies, granted him $25,000 to investigate un-American activities. This meant Communists, Nazis, Italian Fascists. Dies knew next to nothing about such people, was getting nowhere when he enlisted former Lecturer Joseph B. Matthews, an ex-fellow traveler of the Communists who knew too much about them. Soon Congressman Dies was in the middle of a Red hunt. But it was Dies who was being hunted. Seldom has a normally constituted committee of Congress been so ridiculed, defamed, lied about and to.

Martin Dies was an easy...