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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.

The A.N.C. is a national movement. We all - Communists and non-Communists alike - want a nonracial, democratic, united South Africa.

In my grandfather's time, the FN was founded largely as an anti-Communist party.

My great-great-grandfather Julius founded the Communist Party in New York.

I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

The N.C.A.A. is a multibillion-dollar business built on the talents of players who are often unqualified for or uninterested in being students and who benefit materially from the system only if they are among the few who turn professional.

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.

When I joined the Communist movement in 1935 it was based upon the belief that mankind's future was to be found there. Certainly, millions who joined it the world over, like myself, didn't join it for profit.