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11/23/43
"It is unique in tlie history of America for a so-called organization of lawyers to thus honor one so contemptuous of the Nation’s law-making body, but it is thoroughly in keeping with the communistic performances of the National Lawyers’ G-uild.
"Its tenets, objects, and aims have been and are such that Mr. Justice Robert H. Jackson, former Attorney General; Mr. A, A,
Berle, Assistant Secretary of State; New York Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Pecora; Judge Natlian Margold, of our District of Columbia Municipal Court, and formerly Solicitor for the Department of the Interior; New York City Comptroller, Joseph D, McGoldrick; and others resigned, with reasons therefor which may be stated, as they were by Mr. Merle, as follows;
"’It is obvious that the present management of the Guild is not prepared to take any stand which conflicts with the Communist Party line. Under these circumstances, and in company with most pro¬ gressive lawyers, I have no further interest in it. ’
"Come what may, Mr. Fly still thinks so well of the Guild that he is willing to break bread with its members and at a dinner given under its auspices, and that at a time when our people are tightening their belts, foregoing as the President has strongly intimated, adequate diets as a safeguard against greater shortages of good food, and to the end that we may do more than a man’s part in feeding, financing, and policing the world as a part of the new world order which is Just now taking shape and emerging from the dream state, <'<•
"I cannot refrain from observing that it seems strange that the expensive dinner to honor Mr. Fly should be held in these days of strenuous rationing, and when many organizations and associ¬ ations are, at the behest of the Government itself, canceling their meetings, conventions, and banquets in the interest of the war effort.
"Whatever the true object of the impending testimonial, and waatever the subjects that will be discussed, let us hope that Mr.
Fly will enunciate a fixed and determined plan to safeguard the free¬ dom of the radio; and that any and all other proposals will be left to the countries which have dictators and admit the fact. If Mr, Fly does this, however, he will have to forsake a principle which he has helped to establish, namely, that radio stations may properly be re¬ quired to sign and file stipulations with the Commission indicative of pi'ogram content, as conditions precedent to favorable action by the Commission on matters before it,
"A document accompanying the announcement of the Fly testi¬ monial dinner bears the notation ’ Standard Form No, 64, office mem¬ orandum, United States Government’ and is signed Harry M. Plotkin.
That paper indicates that officials and employees of the Federal Com¬ munications Commission are probably being solicited to purchase dlnpor tickets at ?!4, 50 a throw, since Mr. Plotkin happens to be a raem°®r of the Commission’s legal staff.
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