EXHIBIT NO. 20

SENATOR MCCARTHY'S STATEMENT ON MRS. ESTHER CAUKIN BRUNAUER

I should now like to take up the case of Esther Caukin Brunauer, Assistant Director of Policy Liaison, UNESCO Relations Staff, Department of State, as a salary of $9,706 a year according to the current Federal Register.

I urgently request that this committee give serious consideration to the details of this case and act immediately to ascertain the facts.

Mrs. Brunauer was for many years Executive Secretary of the American Association of University Women.

Mrs. Brunauer was instrumental in committing this organization to the support of various front enterprises, particularly in the so-called consumer field. One such instance of this activity was reported in the New York Times of April 27, 1943. In that case the American Association of University Women joined with Consumers Union, The League of Women Shoppers, and other completely Communist controlled fronts. I have explained to the committee that these organizations have been declared subversive by various governmental agencies.

Exhibit R indicates that Mrs. Brunauer presided at a Washington meeting of the American Friends of the Soviet Union. This organization has been cited as subversive by the Attorney General of the United States, the House Committee on Un-American Activities and the California Committee on Un-American Activities. The principal speaker at this meeting was Myra Page, long an avowed leader of the Communist Party and frequent writer for the Daily Worker and other Communist periodicals.

Certainly this committee has no doubts as to the domination by the Communist Party of the American Youth Congress. It has been cited as subversive by the Attorney General and other governmental agencies.

Exhibit S shows Esther Caukin Brunauer was a signer of the call to the annual meeting of the American Youth Congress in 1938.

Esther Brunauer is the wife of Stephen Brunauer, a Hungarian by birth. He is a scientist who has had the rank of Commander in the United States Navy and his scientific work has involved some of the topmost defense secrets which the armed forces of his country possess.

I think it highly important that this committee immediately, in accordance with their mandate from the Senate, obtain the files of the Federal Bureau of Invesigation, Naval Intelligence, and the State Department on the activities of Stephan Brunauer, the husband of this ranking official of the State Department. I ask that the committee immediately seek to learn whether or not Stephan Brunauer has

1. Been the subject of a constant investigation by government agencies over a period of ten years.

2. A close friend and collaborator of Noel Field, known Communist who re cently and mysteriously disappeared behind the Iron Curtain.

3. He has admitted to associates that he was a member of the Communist party.

I am reluctant to go any further into this case but I am prepared to produce competent witnesses who will testify to the importance of immediate action in this matter,

It can be readily shown that at least three government agencies have been sifting the activities of a small group of people whose work seriously threatens the security of the country.

Certainly the Communist front activities of Mrs. Brunauer are sufficient to seriously question her security status.

EXHIBIT No. 21

"WHO RULES IN SOVIET RUSSIA ?”

A LECTURE BY MYRA PAGE, AUTHOR-EDUCATOR LECTURER, TYPOGRAPHICAL TEM-
PLE, 423 G STREET, N. W., THURSDAY, JUNE 11TH, 1936, 8:30 P. M.
BRUNAUER, WILL PRESIDE

DR. ESTHER

"A timely and interesting discussion on a much debated subject by a wellknown American writer, who has spent 2 years in The Soviet Union. Myra Page is the author of several books. Her most recent one is "Moscow Yankee." She

is an instructor at Commonwealth College in Arkansas. Formerly on the staff of the "Moscow Daily News," she is a contributor to the "Nation," "New Republic," and other American periodicals and is on the Editorial staff of the Magazine "Soviet Russia Today."

ADMISSION 35 CENTS. AUSPICES A. F. S. U.

EXHIBIT No. 22

CALLING THE CONGRESS OF YOUTH

We the undersigned* urged the organizations of youth and the agencies serving youth to respond to this CALL to the Congress of YOUTH. We take the initiative in calling the young people of America together to give them an opportunity to consider their mutual problems and train themselves for self-government by practicing citizenship.

W. P. Freeman, Order of Rainbow Dr. Kendall Emerson, National TuberGirls.

*The signers are issuing this Call, not as the official representatives of their organizations, but in their personal capacities as individuals deeply concerned with the role of young people in the United States.

Frank Gillmore, Associated Actors and Lee E. Geyer, U. S. Representative from Artists of America.

Hazel E. Foster, Association of Church Henry A. Atkinson, World Alliance for Social Workers.

RELIGIOUS-continued

Helen Morton, National Intercollegiate Katherine Terrill, Council for Social Christian Council.

Reverend A. Clayton Powell, Jr.,
Abyssinian Baptist Church.
Henrietta Roelofs, Young Women's
Christian Association.

Carl C. Seitter, National Council of
Methodist Youth.

Action, Congregation and Christian
Church.

Jay A. Urice, Young Men's Christian
Association.

Charles C. Webber, Methodist Federa-
tion for Social Service.

Bishop Herbert Welch, Methodist Episcopal Church.

NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM

Support of

Thomas-Larrabee Federal Aid to Education Bill.

Wagner Health Bill.

Bloom Neutrality Act Revision Bill.

Pittman Resolution embargoing violators of Nine-Power Treaty.

Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-Lynching Bill.

Mitchell Bill barring discrimination on interstate carriers.

Wagner Labor Relations Act without amendment.

Wagner-Rogers Child Refugee Bill.

Amendments to Social Security Act extending benefits to migratory, agri

cultural and domestic workers.

Pensions of $60 per month at age 60.

Extension of Federal Farm Loans.

Placement of C. C. C. under civilian control and extension of educational program.

Expansion of N. Y. A. and W. P. A.

Ratification of—

Child Labor Amendment.

Repeal of

Oriental Exclusion Act.

Opposition to

Smith Omnibus Bill and others directed at curtailment of civil liberties.

OFFICERS ELECTED

The Nominations Committee, elected at the Congress, presented a slate of Officers, made up from nominations received from organizations and State Delegation meetings, to the Joint Session of Senate and House. At the Session, declinations, substitutions, and nominations were accepted from the floor and a final ballot distributed for the vote resulting in the election of the following Officers:

Chairman-Jack McMichael, National Intercollegiate Christian Council.
Vice-Chairmen :

J. Carrel Morris, Christian Youth Council of North America.
James B. Carey, United Electric, Radio and Machine Workers of America.
Mary Jeanne McKay, National Student Federation of America.

Louise Meyerovitz, Young Judea.

Edward E. Strong, National Negro Congress, Youth Section.
James V. Krakora, Czechoslovak Society of America.
(Representative of farm organization to be named later).

Regional representatives:

New England: Alexander Karanikas, Massachusetts Youth Congress.
Middle Atlantic: Michael Gravino, New York State Youth Council.
East Central: Myrtle Powell, Pittsburgh Y. W. C. A.

South Thelma Dale, Southern Negro Youth Congress.

Miss Jimmy Woodward, Y. W. C. A., Randolph-Macon College.
South West: Wynard Norman, Oklahoma City Youth Assembly.
West Central: Harlan Crippen, Minnesota Youth Assembly.

West Coast and Rocky Mountain: Clara Walldow, California Youth Legislature.

Puerto Rico: Julia Rivera.

Treasurer: Harriet Pickens, Business and Professional Council, Y. W. C. A. Executive Secretary: Joseph Cadden.

Representatives-at-Large:

Clarence Carter, Connecticut Conference of Youth.

Daniel J. Spooner, Young Peoples League of the United Synagogue of America.

Howard Ennes, Washington, D. C., Youth Council.

Joseph Lash, American Student Union.

Margeret Day, National Federation of Settlements.

Josiah R. Bartlett, Social Action Committee, Union Theological Seminary. (Representatives of Industrial Council, Y. W. C. A. and an A. F. of L. Union to be named later.)

Elected Officers listed above constitute the Cabinet of the American Youth Congress.

The Cabinet, meeting on July 5, made the following appointments:

Administrative Secretary-Frances M. Williams.
Legislative Director-Abbott Simon.

CREDENTIALS REPORT

Presented by the Chairman of the Credentials Committee, Roy Lancaster of the Gas By-Product, Coke and Chemical Workers.

736 Senators and Representatives representing organizations with a total membership of 4,697,915 (after subtraction for duplication) are accredited at the Congress of Youth. Of these, 96 are Senators delegated by 63 different national organizatiɔ is; 640 are Representatives from 450 organizations. Representation of women is approximately two-thirds that of men. The youngest delegate is 14 years old and the median age is 22.

EXHIBIT No. 23

[From the New York Times, Thursday, March 16, 1939]

NEW PEACE GROUP IS ORGANIZED HERE-17 LEADERS OF VARIOUS U. S. ORGANIZATIONS JOIN IN DRIVE FOR COOPERATIVE PROGRAM-OPPOSE ISOLATION POLICYREVISION OF NEUTRALITY ACT TO BE SOUGHT EICHELBERGER IS ELECTED CHAIRMAN

A new peace organization to campaign for international cooperation under the leadership of the United States, as distinguished from isolation, was started here yesterday under the name of the American Union for Concerted Peace Efforts.

In launching it, seventeen leaders of national organizations declared their conviction that the only road to peace for the United States and the world was a vigorous three-point foreign policy: "To oppose aggression, to promote justice between nations, to develop adequate peace machinery."

The new peace union likewise announced plans for a Conference of One Hundred to be held in Washington on April 15 and 16 to bring together leaders of organized public opinion.

EICHELBERGER IS CHAIRMAN

Clark M. Eichelberger, national director of the League of Nations Association, who was elected chairman of the executive committee of the new peace body, said yesterday it would emphasize a campaign to support the revision of our present Neutrality Act along the lines of the amendment recently introduced by Senator Elbert D. Thomas of Utah.

This amendment would have the practical effect of giving the President and Congress an opportunity to decide who was the aggressor and to withhold the economic resources of the United States from the aggressor while continuing to supply aid to the victim.

"World cooperation alone can protect American interests," said the statement of principles announcing the new group. "Consequently we support the leadership of the United States in the cooperative use of its moral, diplomatic, and economic power to find ways short of war to let the aggressor know that he can go no further."