Archive Report
Archive Report
Demands for Suppression of Subversive Activities
Arrest on March 12 of the British author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey for deportation on the ground of his alleged belief in overthrow of government by force drew national attention to current efforts to strengthen American laws for the restraint of radical agitators and suppression of subversive activities, Although the special committee to investigate Nazi and other propaganda, appointed in pursuance of a resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on March 20, 1934, concluded in a report submitted on February 15, 1935, that the Communist movement in this country was not “sufficiently strong numerically nor an influence to constitute a danger to American institutions at the present time,” indications of increasing Communist activity, particularly in connection with ...