The Dies Committee on Un-American Activities, of which Mr. Thomas s a member, has demanded deport tation of Mr. Bridges on charges that he is an alien and a Communist, th: he advocated overthrow of the ernment by force, and that he made disparaging and rabbd-rousing remarks against President Roosevelt It further charged that Miss Perk Mr. Houghteling and Mr. Reilly have been derelict in their duty.
Miss Perkins has refused to press for deportation until and when, the accusations against Mr. Bridges are substantiated, or the Supreme Court rules whether membership in the Communist Party is a deportable offence.
Conference with U.S. Envoy Stony Silence in House Vatican City, Mar. 13.
Pope Pius XII held a lengthy conference here today with Mr. Joseph Kennedy, United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James and American delegate to the Coronation of the new Pope.
Mr. Kennedy said later that th Pope had admired President Roosevelt's stand on religion, referring to the President's recent speech tha religious freedom was one of the most worthwhile benefits derived from Democracy.
Meanwhile, Vatican circles reported the new Pope plans to start an active world peace campaign immediately by making frequent appeals to all peoples to seek salvation through peaceful negotiations.
At the same time the Pope will attempt to improve strained relations between the Vatican and Germany, it was understood.
This belief followed the receipt of congratulations from Herr Diego von Bergen, German Ambassador to the Vatican, who was received in audience by the Pope.
The granting of the audience was regarded by many as an additional sign of the Pontiff's determination to achieve conciliation with the Reich.
The usually raucous House sat stony silence as the clerk read M 'Thomas' measure which merked the first attempt to impeach a Cabinet officer since 1876 when the Secretary of War, Mr. William W. Belknap, was exonerated of accepting bribes.
On motion of Majority Leader, Mr Sam Rayburn, it was referred to the Judiciary Committee where its fate is conjectural. The Dies Committee, which is expected to support the resolution, is in disrepute at the White House and among some segments of Congress which charged that it a forum for "crackpots" and disgruntled politicians.
The resolution covered 44 typewritten pages reciting the circumstances of Mr. Bridges' entry into the country in 1920, his subsequent leadership of the bloody west coast maritime strike in 1934, and the deportation fight which began in 1937 and was vigorously resisted by the Labour Department.
It directed the Judiciary Committee acting as a whole or by subcommittee, to investigate the official conduct of the accused "to determine whether. in its opinion, they have been guilty of high crimes or misdemeenours, which, in the contemplation of the Constitution, requires the interposition of the constitutional power of the House.
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