In three of its Reports, the Dies Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives cited the League of American Writers as a Communist front organization. "The League of American Writers, founded un der Communist auspices in 1935...in 1939...began openly to follow the Communist Party line as dictated by a foreign policy of the Soviet Union."
In the early days of World War II Franklin Roosevelt's Attorney General Francis Biddle stated that the overt activities of the League of American Writers during the Communazi era and immediately following German Chancellor Adolf Hitler's violation of that pact left little doubt of the fact that the League was controlled by the Soviet Union. Truman Attorney General Thomas Clark, in his letters to the Loyalty Review Board, cited the League as subversive and Communist and it was redeignated on April 27 1953 pursuant to Executive Order No. 10450.