Émigré rivals smeared the Institute as Marxist before police came calling

Evidence

But the directors of the Institute had to be prepared for the fact that suspicions that the Institute had Communist members of staff, was Marxist and was only a front organization were being spread not only by people at the New School but also by all sorts of other émigrés who wanted to discredit the Institute in the eyes of American grant organizations, or simply give vent to their irritation with it. … On 30 July 1940, during the university vacation, two police officers visited the Institute. Only Lowenthal and one of the secretaries were present. … The visit was allegedly part of a general inspection of foreign institutions, but Lowenthal found that no one else in academic circles had been affected. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 277

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ account of the Institute’s American fundraising and Louis Wirth’s relations with the New School. The targeting of refugee institutions by fundraising competitors is a recurring pattern in exile studies. — connects to: The Institute was raided because its labour-movement library suggested socialist bias; Rival émigré factions, not locals, drove suspicion against the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276; Rival émigrés actively spread Communist-front rumors to undermine the Institute’s funding. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1060
• 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; Rival émigré factions, not locals, drove suspicion against the Institute — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 276; Rival émigrés actively spread Communist-front rumors to undermine the Institute’s funding. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1060