opinion of medical authorities that he has completely rehabilitated himself. Under ordinary circumstances, the Blue Network would not permit a person, with a criminal record, to be a news commentator. But Mr. Gailmor's case is well known in medical circles as an example of the irresponsibility of a mentally sick man rather than of a man with criminal intent. We refuse to 'persecute' a man who has restored himself to normal living.

"A great number of veterans, temporarily mentally sick, will be discharged from the Armed Forces. We believe it is important that they have the opportunity to find employment without any stigma being attached to them.

"Relative to the third charge, the Electronic Corp., of America and its affiliated concerns are substantial businesses. Last year, the corporation was awarded the Army-Navy E. Its commercial announcements on the program, designed to attract general public good will, conform to radio advertising standards. Mr. Novick' has assured us that his purpose in purchasing radio time is only to advertise the company and its products. We are naturally concerned and watchful of any tendency of advertisers to select or to guide commentators for the purpose of expressing political points of view. We scrutinize all sponsored news programs to prevent any such possibility.

"We are glad that the public inquiry was made of Mr. Gailmor's fitness and of the purpose of the Electronic Corp. of America program. We welcome such inquiries because as a holder of public franchise, we believe that our policies should be subject to public appraisal. The Blue Network permits broad freedom of expression to its news commentators because, in this way, radio can contribute most to 'freedom of the air.' These comments on the news are in addition to straight news reporting. On the latter, we permit no editorializing on the news. The Blue's news will always be based on straightforward reporting of the facts.

"We have tried to act fairly and carefully in this matter, because the problems involved are of even greater importance than the case at hand. We are not afraid of using our facilities so that the American public will have a variety of viewpoints. In fact, it is our determined obligation to do just that. If new evidence should develop to prove our decision at variance with our policies, we shall act promptly."

Mr. SOURWINE. Howard Rushmore continued:

January 5, Gailmor upheld Moscow-controlled Lublin government in Poland as democratic.

Is there anything you care to comment on?

Mr. GAILMOR. I will only say that it is the habit of alleged journalists of the Rushmore stripe to pull phrases or sentences out of context of a speaker or a commentator to make the speaker or commentator look like they are trying to paint them.

Mr. SOURWINE. Rushmore continued:

Earlier, Gailmor had been committed to a mental institution after conviction for theft of a car.

Were

you in fact ever convicted for the theft of a car?

Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir. That was 20 years ago. There was a psychiatric episode in my life which was diagnosed as such and it was the action of the court at that time that I receive psychiatric treatment for 1 year, which I did, and that was the end of that.

Mr. SOURWINE. That was 5 years before Rushmore wrote that?

1 The Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, on pages 32 and 33 of its publication of December 30, 1951, entitled "The Shameful Years," had the following to say: "*** the committee's records show that, while Ludwig Martens, the first known Soviet agent, operated in this country, from 1919 to 1921, he was assisted by Arthur Alexandrovich Adams. From subsequent events, it is certain that in each of these visits (1927 and 1936) Adams was engaged in Soviet espionage missions. * After gaining admission to this country, Adams obtained the right to permanent residence which was facilitated by false statements made by Samuel Novick. Novick later became president of Electronics Corp. of America, a firm which originated in 1942. During World War II, Electronics Corp. of America had Government contracts amounting to $6 million and had exclusive contracts to produce certain highly secret items for use in radar installations."

Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir; and 20 years ago.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the William S. Gailmor referred to in an article in the Daily Worker of October 16, 1945, referring to your cancellation as a broadcaster by radio station WJZ?

Mr. GAILMOR. I did not get the question.

Mr. SOURWINE. I ask you, were you the William S. Gailmor referred to in an article in the Daily Worker of October 16, 1945, which referred to the cancellation of William S. Gailmor as a broadcaster by New York radio station WJZ?

Mr. GAILMOR. That was incorrectly reported. I was not canceled by station WJZ. What happened was, at the expiration of the contract, it was not renewed, but there was not a cancellation.

Mr. SOURWINE. Thank you.

Were you a sponsor of the American Committee for Spanish Freedom?

Mr. GAILMOR. Not to my recollection.

Mr. SOURWINE. I will tell you that the Worker on November 11, 1945, reported that a William S. Gailmor was such a sponsor.

Mr. GAILMOR. I do not necessarily accept reports that appear in the Worker.

Mr. SOURWINE. No, that is perfectly true and I don't say it in refutation of your testimony at all.

Mr. GAILMOR. I think there was a trend in those days for the Worker to assume that if a person spoke at a certain meeting or was sympathetic with a cause, that he would sponsor the entire movement.

Mr. SOURWINE. Were you at any time or in any way connected with the American Committee for Spanish Freedom?

Mr. GAILMOR. I recall making anti-Franco speeches and speeches on behalf of the Loyalists of Spain, but that is about the extent of my recollection.

Mr. SOURWINE. Did you know that the American Committee for Spanish Freedom had been cited by the Attorney General as subversive?

Mr. GAILMOR. I certainly did not know that at the time I was speaking to them. That was many years ago.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the William S. Gailmor who addressed a rally sponsored by the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order at Talmud Torah in Brooklyn, N.Y., as reported by the Daily Worker of March 20, 1946?

Mr. GAILMOR. I don't recall the specific event, but it is possible. Mr. SOURWINE. Did you have any connection other than speaking dates with the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order?

Mr. GAILMOR. No, sir.

Mr. SOURWINE. Did you know that the Jewish Peoples Fraternal Order had been cited by the Attorney General as subversive?

Mr. GAILMOR. I heard that some years later. As a matter of fact, many of these organizations under whose auspices I spoke in the 1940's were, subsequent to my appearance in their behalf.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the same Gailmor who was a speaker at Mills School in New York City under the sponsorship of the Greenwich Village Civil Rights Congress, as reported by the Daily Worker of February 28, 1947?

Mr. GAILMOR. I don't remember that specific event, but it is possible because I was always outspoken on issues of civil rights and would have gone anywhere to help civil rights.

Mr. SOURWINE. According to that report in the Daily Worker of February 28, 1947, you made such a speech, the subject being, “Encroaching Threats to Our Civil Rights. Do you remember anything of that sort?

Mr. GAILMOR. Vaguely. I am quite sure I was concerned about such things.

Mr. SOURWINE. Did you know that the Greenwich Village Civil Rights Congress has been cited by the Attorney General as subversive? Mr. GAILMOR. I did not know that particular organization, and, as a matter of fact, I don't recall it.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the same Gailmor who received an award for "civil merit, second degree" from the President of the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria?

Mr. GAILMOR. As I recall, I was one of a number of American commentators who were sympathetic to the victims of the war in Eastern European countries who received that. Certainly it was without solicitation and to my very great surprise, a package arrived, and that was that. I was not alone in that. I think it was a public relations effort on the part of the Government of Bulgaria.

Mr. SOURWINE. Tell us, what is the award for civil merit, second degree?

Mr. GAILMOR. I haven't the slightest idea, Mr. Sourwine. Mr. SOURWINE. It came in a package-was it a big thing or a little thing?

Mr. GAILMOR. It came in a package with a citation in Bulgarian and there was this very attractive ceramic cross or something and I gave it to my wife to wear as a trinket. It has long since disappeared, but I remember there was a lot of chitchat about it among newspapermen and commentators who received it.

Mr. SOURWINE. Did you receive this award because of your publicity in the United States and in Canada upholding the cause of new Bulgaria?

Mr. GAILMOR. No, sir; I don't recall of anything along those lines. I never spoke in Canada on this subject and I don't remember speaking specifically about Bulgaria at any time.

Mr. SOURWINE. You don't remember what they said about why you

got it?

Mr. GAILMOR. No, sir. It was a printed form-by the way, it was printed in the original Bulgarian and I never took the trouble, because I saw it was a package deal.

Mr. SOURWINE. You say you never did anything to uphold the cause of new Bulgaria?

Mr. GAILMOR. Not in that sense.

Mr. SOURWINE. Were you ever connected with the Voice of Freedom Committee?

Mr. GAILMOR. The Voice of Freedom Committee was a committee that was devoted to maintaining freedom on the air and I did some speaking under their auspices and they held once a dinner in my honor.

Mr. SOURWINE. And did you know that the Voice of Freedom Committee had been cited by the Attorney General as a subversive organization?

Mr. GAILMOR. I did not know that. I was out of touch with them almost immediately after the dinner in my honor.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the Gailmor who was a sponsor of the School of Jewish Studies?

Mr. GAILMOR. I don't remember being a sponsor, but I remember being interested in the program they were trying to develop.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you aware that the School of Jewish Studies was cited by the Attorney General as subversive?

Mr. GAILMOR. No, I am not aware of that.

Mr. SOURWINE. Do you know what your connection with that school was in 1948?

Mr. GAILMOR. I don't remember. I just remember being interested in what they were doing and I may have attended one conference about it; but I was certainly never active, more than casually. Mr. SOURWINE. Casually?

Mr. GAILMOR. Never more than casually interested.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the Gailmor whose name appeared on a letterhead of the American Committee for a Democratic Greece as a member of the board of directors of that organization?

Mr. GAILMOR. If my name appeared on the letterhead, it must have been so except in many instance people like myself were made directors if they only expressed some sympathy for a cause.

Mr. SOURWINE. Were you aware that the American Committee for a Democratic Greece has been cited by the Attorney General as subversive?

Mr. GAILMOR. I was not aware of it at the time I had any contact with it.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the same Gailmor who was referred to in an article by Westbrook Pegler in the New York Journal American issue of May 18, 1948, which article referred to one Gailmor's part in agitating 2,000 Communists to mob the Roxy Theater where a motion picture called "The Iron Curtain" was being played?

Mr. GAILMOR. That was one of a series of articles that Mr. Pegler honored me with. The reference to the so-called agitating to a riotI would no more agitate to riot-I am not built that way-I think it is a crazy idea. I remember asking, when I saw the article, after a meeting held in New York that a number of people thought they ought to picket the movie in Times Square and went and some kind of a ruckus resulted and because I called attention that a certain picture was not a desirable one to see, I was blamed by Westbrook Pegler. Mr. SOURWINE. You were not present?

Mr. GAILMOR. I was not present and didn't know about it until I read the papers.

Mr. SOURWINE. Are you the same William S. Gailmor who traveled and spoke with Henry Wallace during his Progressive Party campaign for the presidency?

Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir; I was a member of Mr. Wallace's personal staff.

Mr. SOURWINE. And traveled with him during the campaign?
Mr. GAILMOR. That is right.

Mr. SOURWINE. And you are the same Gailmor who spoke from the platform of a Henry Wallace rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1948?

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Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir, and quite a number of rallies throughout the country during the campaign period.

Mr. SOURWINE. Do you know John Huber?

Mr. GAILMOR. I only know that name because one John Huber was quoted as having called me a Communist before a Senate committee 10 years ago, and I might add this is the first time in 10 years I have had the opportunity to deny that rather vicious allegation in an official setting.

That is the only way I know that name. I denied it to the press at the time I was queried on it, but that was my first introduction to John Huber.

Mr. SOURWINE. John Huber testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization on September 8, 1949, just about 10 years ago, and identified one William S. Gailmor as a top Communist who was admitted to closed meetings of the Communist Party.

Mr. GAILMOR. That was an outright falsehood.

Mr. SOURWINE. You have covered the Foreign Ministers Conference in Geneva in the early part of the summer this year?

Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir; I was there for a little over 2 weeks in Geneva.

Mr. SOURWINE. You went there as an assignment from the radio station at which you were then employed?

Mr. GAILMOR. That is right.

Mr. SOURWINE. And while you were in Geneva did you have any contact with persons known to you to be Communists?

Mr. GAILMOR. No, not known to me personally as Communists except as far as speaking literally to hundreds of people, hundreds of correspondents over there and talking to representatives of the East German press and I have an idea they wouldn't be given their assignments if they were not Communists, but of my own knowledge I certainly don't know of speaking to any known Communists.

Mr. SOURWINE. Mr. Gailmor, I show you a photostat of a passport application which bears the photograph of an individual with a rather close likeness to yourself. The application is in the name of William S. Gailmor, February 19, 1958, the date the passport was issued, and I will ask you if this is a passport application which you made and when you identify it as such I will have another question for you.

Mr. GAILMOR. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, this is my application for passport and I remember, by the way, that the question as to whether I was a member of the Communist Party was part of the things that I was swearing to and I swore to it gladly. I was never a member of the Communist Party, and this was before the Supreme Court decision invalidating political questions.

Mr. SOURWINE. Where is that? Would you call attention to it by page or number or letter designation?

Mr. GAILMOR. On page 2 of the passport application there is a place for a photograph and there is this, "Are you now a member of the Communist Party? (Answer 'Yes' or 'No')" and I answered "No." And "Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party? (Answer 'Yes' or 'No')" and I answered "No,"