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==Communist roots==
 
==Communist roots==
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Field also served as secretary of the bail fund of the [[Civil Rights Congress]], another organization designated a Communist front by the attorney general.<ref>Enid Nemy, "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94]," ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 2000</ref> According to [[Georgetown University]] Professor [[Carroll Quigley]], Field was also an officer of what Quigley alleged was a "Communist-front organization, the Trade Union Services, Incorporated, of New York City." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'' (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966) ISBN 0-945001-10-X, p. 944</ref>
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Field also served as secretary of the bail fund of the [[Civil Rights Congress]] (CRC), another organization designated a Communist front by the attorney general.<ref>Enid Nemy, "[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Wealthy Leftist, Dies at 94]," ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 7, 2000</ref> According to [[Georgetown University]] Professor [[Carroll Quigley]], Field was also an officer of what Quigley alleged was a "Communist-front organization, the Trade Union Services, Incorporated, of New York City." <ref>Carroll Quigley, ''Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time'' (New York: Macmillan Company, 1966) ISBN 0-945001-10-X, p. 944</ref>
    
After education at [[Harvard University]] and a year at the [[London School of Economics]]<ref>Robert Sherrill, “[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 A Life Devoted to a Lost Cause],” ''The New York Times'', October 16, 1983</ref> where he came under the influence of [[socialist]] [[Harold Laski]],<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Op. cit.],''</ref> he joined the [[Socialist Party of America]] of [[Norman Thomas]] in 1928.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html Life of an Angel]," ''Time,'' January 9, 1950</ref> By age 30, he had "evolved into a thoroughgoing Communist."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>
 
After education at [[Harvard University]] and a year at the [[London School of Economics]]<ref>Robert Sherrill, “[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 A Life Devoted to a Lost Cause],” ''The New York Times'', October 16, 1983</ref> where he came under the influence of [[socialist]] [[Harold Laski]],<ref>Enid Nemy, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E0D9163EF934A35751C0A9669C8B63&n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/N/Nemy,%20Enid Op. cit.],''</ref> he joined the [[Socialist Party of America]] of [[Norman Thomas]] in 1928.<ref>"[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,811650,00.html Life of an Angel]," ''Time,'' January 9, 1950</ref> By age 30, he had "evolved into a thoroughgoing Communist."<ref>Robert Sherrill, ''[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E0DB173BF935A25753C1A965948260 Op. cit.]''</ref>
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