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-3- in key positions where they can sabotage our nation’s policies. It is not surpri¬ sing that they (the Communists) would like to control radio broadcasting stations.” He called for ”a thorough investigation of the Durr affair.” Durr 1 s Pinal Statement (A repeat of his Chicago remarks) Durr immediately said he believed Capehart had ’’rendered a service in bring¬ ing into the open a few matters which would better have been in the open from the" beginning.” He called for full and open hearings on the whole matter. ’’Nothing could be more dangerous for the American form of government” than the unwarranted secrecy with which this and similar activities of the FBI are surrounded, he said, and added, ”if charges are to be made in secret against individuals, the accused individuals should be given every opportunity to defend themselves publicly.” **** ***** ( REPRINTED HERE IS TEE STATEMENT ISSUED BY VARIETY TTEIT IT HADE A 1946 A TT ARD TO DURR) Clifford J. Durr is one of the few Commissioners in the history of the FCC who has been able to see the woods for the trees. By contrast with the lawyers and engineers who have usually been his colleagues, he has insisted that the decisive criterion of radio service is not primarily the. coverage pattern, the balance sheet, or the subtleties of a practitioner before the FCC Bar, but what comes out of the loudspeaker; the program. It is pre¬ eminently Durr who has refused to lend his assent to Commission decisions which might tend to corrode the foundations of a truly free and unmonopolized radio. It is Durr who has struck out sharply against inflated sale prices for facilities which are primarily the property of the public. And finally, it is Durr who has not hesitated to state his position publicly and in lucid terms, stumping the country from end to end to preach the gospel of democracy in radio. To the Great Dissenter of the present FCC; the guardsman of the American people’s stake in the air they nominally own and the most show-management-minded Commissioner on the FCC, ’’Variety” extends its esteem and its 1946 award.