f Congress has yet
been powerful enough to investigate it or the foundations with which it
has interlocking connections and from which it receives its support.

On August 1, 1951, Congressman E. E. Cox (Democrat, Georgia) introduced
a resolution in the House asking for a Committee to conduct a thorough
investigation of tax-exempt foundations. Congressman Cox said that some
of the great foundations,

"had operated in the field of social reform and international
relations (and) many have brought down on themselves harsh and just
condemnation."

He named the Rockefeller Foundation,

"whose funds have been used to finance individuals and
organizations whose business it has been to get communism into the
private and public schools of the country, to talk down America and
to play up Russia."

He cited the Guggenheim Foundation, whose money,

"was used to spread radicalism throughout the country to an extent
not excelled by any other foundation."

He listed the Carnegie Corporation, The Rosenwald Fund, and other
foundations, saying:

"There are disquieting evidences that at least a few of the
foundations have permitted themselves to be infiltrated by men and
women who are disloyal to our American way of life. They should be
investigated and exposed to the pitiless light of publicity, and
appropriate legislation should be framed to correct the present
situation."

Congressman Cox's resolution, proposing an investigation of foundations,
died in Committee.

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On March 10, 1952, Cox introduced the same resolution again. Because he
had mentioned foundation support for Langston Hughes, a Negro communist,
Congressman Cox was accused of racial prejudice. Because he had
criticized the Rosenwald Fund for making grants to known communists, he
was called anti-semitic. But the Cox resolution was adopted in 1952; and
the Cox committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations was set up.

Congressman Cox died before the end of the year; and the final report of
his committee (filed January 1, 1953) was a pathetic whitewash of the
whole subject.

A Republican-controlled Congress (the 83rd) came into existence in
January, 1953.

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On April 23, 1953, the late Congressman Carroll Reece, (Republican,
Tennessee) introduced a resolution proposing a committee to carry on the
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