Rival émigré factions, not locals, drove suspicion against the Institute

Evidence

In this political climate, which had been growing more bitter in the late 1930s, the Institute suffered more from a vague kind of mistrust which had clearly been inspired by émigrés of other persuasions. Relations between the Institute and the New School for Social Research were particularly tense. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 276

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the Löwe, Lederer, and Speier figures named in the following paragraphs as the source of that mistrust. — connects to: The Institute was raided because its labour-movement library suggested socialist bias; Émigré rivals smeared the Institute as Marxist before police came calling — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 277; Institute executive power was seen as essential to guard against conspiratorial rivals — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1971 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Institute was raided because its labour-movement library suggested socialist bias; Émigré rivals smeared the Institute as Marxist before police came calling — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 277; Institute executive power was seen as essential to guard against conspiratorial rivals — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1971 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Rival émigrés actively spread Communist-front rumors to undermine the Institute’s funding. #expands (0.98) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1060
• Émigré rivals smeared the Institute as Marxist before police came calling #exemplifies (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 277