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Many a youthful World War II veteran, bedeviled by a social conscience, threw up his hands in horror at the notion of joining the stuffy, conservative American Legion, trooped over to the American Veterans Committee instead. Not so one group of reform-minded Manhattan newspapermen. Last spring they organized the Duncan-Paris Post (named for two war casualties from the staff of Yank). They elected left-wing Marion ("See Here, Private") Hargrove as their first commander, impertinently began to heckle their Legion elders.

Last week the Legion, awakening to the fact that it had a group of leftists aboard, slapped the upstarts down. A New York State executive committee, denying the Duncan-Paris Post a permanent charter, charged that many of its 275 members nursed Communist sympathies, named four who had contributed to Communist publications.

Legion Commander Hargrove, a registered Democrat, made no bones about the Communists in his post. "You'll find Communists in any young liberal organization these days," he said.

The Duncan-Paris Post would go on about its business, said Hargrove, while it carried its claim for a charter to the Legion's top brass and "if necessary, into the courts."

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