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December 6, 1938, after months of requesting a hearing. In Alsberg's testimony, he emphasized his anti-Communist views and stated that he had to "clean up" the Writer's Project, going so far as to threaten to shut it down at the mention of strikes. Unfortunately, these statements reinforced the committee's suspicions that many Communists were part of the project. Within the project, liberals felt Alsberg had been too deferential toward the committee, while conservatives felt the committee had gone too easy on Alsberg. Numerous co-workers said his testimony was brilliant, but Alsberg wanted to resign afterward. Despite Dies's compliments to Alsberg on his testimony, the committee condemned the Writers' Project.
508:(both of whom had been deported to Russia from the United States the previous year) on a six-week expedition to collect historic materials for the Museum of the Revolution. Their accommodations and treatment by the Soviets were luxurious and opulent, but Alsberg was able to get away from the controlled tours to see the disparity between what they were being told and the conditions of the general public. He conceded that "Russia has not now a democratic form of government in any sense of the word", but was still swayed by the framework of the "necessity of extreme measures in order to save the revolution", comparing it to U.S. actions during war when the government found "habeas corpus, free speech, and such-like refinements...superfluous". In
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The JDC hired
Alsberg to write a history of their organization in 1923, which was his first paid work for them. Alsberg submitted a draft in the summer of 1927. Although it was never published, Susan Rubenstein DeMasi wrote: "it still remains as perhaps the most exhaustive account of pre-World War II
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January 1920, Alsberg traveled north, intending to make his way to Moscow; "a believer in the utopia promised by a classless society, wanted to witness and write about those ideals made manifest". After weeks trying to get into Soviet Russia, he finally succeeded in May. In August, he accompanied
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by association). Senators demanded investigations. More scrutiny found that the guide had a number of passages that appeared to be pro-labor, and the book was banned by several
Massachusetts mayors. Ralph M. Easley, representing a group called the National Civic Federation, complained in a letter to
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by attacking individual projects, Dies claimed that one-third of the
Writers' Project's members were Communists. Despite inaccuracies in statements from the committee being widely reported in the press, Alsberg's superiors refused him permission to issue any statements refuting the charges. Alsberg
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Initially home-schooled, Alsberg was fluent in German and French, and spoke some
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Writers' Project with a "visionary sense of its potential to join social reform with the democratic renaissance of American letters". His original vision for the project was to produce a guide for each major region of the country, but changed the plans to a guide for each state
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and from a high-ranking Soviet official to travel on the expedition, but did not get a special visa from the local Moscow Cheka. The
Foreign Office assured him the Moscow Cheka visa was not needed. But during their travels, orders were sent out to arrest Alsberg for travelling in Russia without
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President Roosevelt that the Writer's Project was "dominated by Communist sympathizers whose principal interest was political agitation". After these complaints, WPA administrators placed a worker in the Writers' Project central office to censor "subversive" material.
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555:(now the FBI), received voluminous reports on Alsberg due to his involvement with the Bolsheviks, his friendship with Goldman and Berkman, and because he was a Jew. Alsberg continued his association with and work for the JDC, working in Italy with refugees.
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in 1954. In 1956, he moved to Mexico, with occasional visits to Palo Alto, and continued to edit for Hastings House. During this period, he worked on his "Mexican stories" (never published) in which he imagined a social climate that accepted homosexuality.
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sense, a feeling for broad human movements and how people are caught up in them." Baker described Alsberg to an associate as "An anarchistic sort of a fellow incapable of administration but one with a great deal of creative talent".
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In April 1919, the JDC transferred him to Poland, though he went reluctantly, concerned about abandoning his work in Prague. In June, he returned briefly to Prague, then went to Paris where he witnessed the signing of the
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and immigrated as a child with his family to the United States in 1865. He was naturalized in 1876. He married Bertha (born in New York City) and had four children with her, of whom Henry was the youngest.
354:(JDC). When the U.S. declared war on Germany in April 1917, Turkey broke off diplomatic relations and the American embassy officials left. On his return to the states, Alsberg met with Secretary of State
393:, claiming that they were forgeries, which was later confirmed by historians. In Jan 1919, Alsberg was secretary of the Palestine Restoration Fund Campaign's National Finance Commission, and wrote for
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in Paris as attaché to the Zionist delegation. While there, Alsberg reconnected with the JDC which needed volunteers to assess and provide relief to destitute Jews in Central and Eastern Europe.
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acted as interpreter for Alsberg while he interviewed local Soviet officials. In Goldman's autobiography, she noted that Alsberg was particularly affected by the stories that the townspeople in
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Alsberg spent several years traveling in Europe and working on his own writing, including his autobiography which he never finished. In March 1934, he joined the publications division of the
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Alsberg felt the American Guide Series needed to be supplemented with books about the people of the country. With this in mind, the project published ethnic studies such as
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During the last years of his life, Alsberg, who never married, lived in Palo Alto, California, with his sister Elsa. Alsberg died November 1, 1970, after a short illness.
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called his adaptation "a triumph", naming it one of the ten best plays of the 1925–1926 season. Alsberg would continue to earn from productions of his adaptation of
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damaged the reputations of the project and Alsberg. A reporter published a story decrying the Massachusetts guide because it spent forty-one lines discussing the
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in a tirade because a woman from his own state had been invited to a party that had both white and black guests. Bilbo later had his comments expunged from the
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to brief him on conditions in Constantinople and offered a plan for separating the Ottoman Empire from the German Alliance, which Lansing passed on to
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writing "The dismissal looks too much like a living sacrifice on the altar of Messrs. Dies and Woodrum and the Red-baiting they represent".
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criticized the churches that turned away homeless during the brutal blizzard that hit New York on March 1. Alsberg went to
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best-seller list on October 2, 1949. Alsberg continued as an editor at Hastings House for more than a decade.
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