The policy committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States has voted unanimously to petition Congress to outlaw the Communist Party, Commander Edgar Burman announced today. The resolution said that “the Communists, who are masquerading as a political party, are in contempt of the American people, the American Constitution and the American way and should be outlawed now.”
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