APRIL 20, 1952
MAVROS DENIAL: National Defense Undersecretary Mr Giorgios Mavros, whose attention was drawn to yesterday’s report in Kathimerini on an extremely dangerous intensification of communist activity in army units, where a secret Communist Party of Greece organization was helping soldiers flee to enemy nations, has made the following statement: «The communist attempt to infiltrate the armed forces has long been a tactic used by the Communist Party. In order to confront these efforts the authorities will be taking further measures.» KAZAN’S STATEMENT: New York – The film director and actor Elia Kazan has once again been called before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. During his first testimony, Kazan admitted that he had been a member of the Communist Party between 1934 and 1936, but refused to name other stage and screen personalities whom he knew to be communists. This time, however, Kazan recognized that this refusal only served the Communist Party’s interests and therefore named the writer Clifford Odetz and the actors Morris Karnovsky and Edward Broberg.
