The Dewey Commission (officially the "Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials") was initiated in March 1937 by the American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, a Trotskyist front organization. It was named after its Chairman, John Dewey. Its other members were Carleton Beals, Otto Ruehle, Benjamin Stolberg, and Secretary Suzanne La Follette, Alfred Rosmer, Wendelin Thomas, Edward A. Ross, John Chamberlain, Carlo Tresca, and Francisco Zamora.
Following months of investigation, the Dewey Commission made its findings public in New York on September 21, 1937.
Read more about Dewey Commission: Sub-commission, Background, Resignation of Beals, Nuremberg Trials
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