Chairman Martin Dies of the House Committee Investigating un-American Activities today announced that the committee had voted to continue to hold open hearings on a variety of subjects including the activities of the Christian Front and Christian Mobilizers. In making this announcement, Dies revealed that the committee had voted down his suggestion that all public hearings be suspended until after the 1940 elections.
Dies said that an investigation of the Front and the Mobilizers was now under way and would be pressed to an early conclusion in order that public hearings on these organizations might be held as soon as possible.
Other aspects of the subversive activities probe to be the subject of public hearing are Nazi and Communistic activities on the west coast, including the controversial investigation of the motion picture industry and alleged Communist activities in consumer organizations, Dies said.
In addition the committee voted to begin immediately a thorough investigation of charges that Communist and Nazi agents from Mexico are carrying on their activities in the U.S., but deferred action on the move to consider the question of foreign propaganda designed to involve this country in the European war.
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