CHAIRMAN OF COMMUNIST PARTY QUESTIONED BY DIES COMMITTEE. William Zebulon Foster, chairman of the Communist Party of the United States, told the Dies committee today that Soviet Russia was justified "100 per cent" in occupying Poland because "it means establishment of a free government." He denied t
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