PROPAGANDA: Mr. Dies Delivers

Martin Dies of Orange, Tex. last week slapped down on the front pages of U. S. papers the result of a year's labor and $110,000 spent in 1940. According to legend, Mr. Dies was chosen for the job of Red hunting by a Texas senior who suggested that this might occupy his mind and thus give his colleagues a rest. True or not, neither the U. S., Congress, Communists, Nazis, Fascists, nor Mr. Dies has had much rest since.

Only six weeks away last week was a new Congress, and Martin Dies, never a piker, was ready to ask this...

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