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    ?╟úARNOLD FORSTER?╟Ñ * Arnold Forster is the director of civil rights activities and chief couneel to the Anti-Defamation League of B?╟╓nai B?╟╓rith. He has carried the struggle for a greater American democracy and for better human relations into the courts, of the land* The talents of r* Forster and his skilled legal associates have been applied to the preparation of historic legal briefs involving fundamental issues of civil rights, which have been argued before the highest state courts and before the Supreme Court of the United States. A corollary to Mr. Forster?╟╓s legal activities has been his supervision of the Anti-Defamation League?╟╓s Fact-Finding program* In this respect, he is one of the few men in American who have a truly accurate perspective of the power and. personality of American fascism. Arnold Forster has mad?? the fight against these insidious influences a lifelong project* Throughout his 17 years of service with the Anti-Defamation League, he has maintained a careful scruting of domestic hate-breeders, documenting and exposing those un-American groups and individuals who are constantly chipping away at the bedrock of democracy* This has kept the ADL one step ahead of the organized hate movement as it shifts from locale to locale and from half truth to lie in its desperate efforts to encourage native fascism, Mr. Forster Joined the Law Department of the Anti?╟÷Defamation League 17 years ago, after supervising for 2 years a group of legal volunteers who worked with that agency. In January, 1946 he was appointed General Counsel and Civil Rights Director, At tnat time, he introduced the Anti-Defamation League?╟╓s annual Survey of Anti-Semitism in America, a yearly study considered to be the most important of its