AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR AID TO KATANGA FREEDOM FIGHTERS SUITE 909 79 MADISON AVE. NEW YORK 16, N.Y. MURRAY HILL 5-0190 CHAIRMAN Dr. Max Yergan TO: CITY EDITORS EDITORIAL WRITERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COLUMNISTS FOR RELEASE TO L. Brent Bozell Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. COMMENTATORS ALL MORNING PAPERS James Burnham Eugene Lyons TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6; 1962 Frank S. Meyer William A. Rusher George S. Schuyler AMERICAN-KATANGA AID COMMITTEE PROTESTS COUNSEL C. Dickerman Williams "SLANDER" BY CONGO REPRESENTATIVE IN U.S. SPONSORS (Partial List) CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF PRO-ADOULA PUBLIC Holmes Alexander C. D. Batchelor Dr. Phillip Bard RELATIONS ACTIVITIES IN UNITED STATES. Prof. Anthony T. Bouscaren Hon. Spruille Braden Gen. Lewis H. Brereton Roy M. Brewer Miss Taylor Caldwell John Chamberlain Prof. Edward P. Coleson New York City, February 6: Dr. Max Yergan, Chairman of the Prof. Lev E. Dobriansky John Dos Passos Sen. James O. Eastland Max Eastman American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters, and prominent Hon. Charles Edison Julius Epstein M. Stanton Evans Negro educator and author, today protested what he termed "slander" Lawrence Fertig John M. Fisher Prof. William Fleming against leading American citizens opposed to the United Nations Clifford Forster Prof. Mark Graubard Prof. Ernest van den Haag Prof. Bernard C. Heyl military action in Katanga by a representative of the Congolese Prof. Russell Kirk Prof. Willmoore Kendall Government in the United States." Prof. Jerzy Hauptmann Herbert V. Kohler Prof. Anthony Kubek William Loeb Dr. Charles W. Lowry Speaking in behalf of the Committee, Dr. Yergan said: "Mr Maurice Arthur G. McDowell Prof. William M. McGovern Clarence E. Manion Kasongo, United States Director of the Information Bureau of the Prof. Ralph S. Marsh J. B. Matthews Prof. Ruth S. Maynard Adolph Menjou Republic of the Congo, circulated an official letter to prominent E. Victor Milione Admiral Ben Moreell Prof. Thomas Moinar individuals in the United States in which he intimated that the Hon. Robert Morris Prof. Gerhart Niemeyer Peter O'Donnell, Jr. American Committee for Aid To Katanga Freedom Fighters :... served Prof. Ben Edwin Perry Prof. Francis Randall Prof. David N. Rowe Morrie Ryskind the ends of interests who would see the Congo drawn into turmoil in Henry Salvatori Prof. O. Glenn Saxon Prof. Hans F. Sennholz order to achieve selfish and treacherous goals. ! Stephen C. Shadegg Prof. William S. Stokes Ralph de Toledano Prof. Eliseo Vivas "In behalf of the members of our Committee, we strongly protest Prof. Walter H. Voskuil Prof. Richard M. Weaver General A. C. Wedemeyer this questioning of our motives by the official representatives of a General William H. Wilbur Prof. Francis G. Wilson Prof. Karl A. Wittfogel government kept in power only through United States support."