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Committee on Un-American Activities, U. S. House of Representatives
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Un-American Activities, United States House ofCommittee on
Representatives
congress, first sessioneighty-second
John S. Wood, Georgia, Chairman
Francis E. Walter, Pennsylvania
MissouriMorgan M. Moulder,
Clyde Doyle, California
TennesseeJames B. Frazier, Jr.,
Harold H. Velde, Illinois
YorkBernard W. Kearney, New
Jackson, CaliforniaDonald L.
Charles E. Potter, Michigan
Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., Counsel
Russell, Senior InvestigatorLouis J.
Clerk CommitteeJohn W. Carrington, ofTABLE OF CONTENTS
Communist "Peace" Offensive
PaeeInternational Communist "Peace" Movement:
Controlling Strategy 1
Cominform Sets the Stage 4
World Congress of Intellectuals 8
and Cultural Conference for World Peace, March 25-27,Scientific
1949 11
World Congress of Partisans of Peace (First World Peace Congress)
April 1949 16
Americans Sponsoring Committee for World Peace Congress 17
American Continental Congress for Peace, September 5-10, 1949 21
"Peace" DelegationsRed 24
Stockholm Conference, March 16-19, 1950 29
Speakers at Stockholm 29Americans at 31
Signature Campaign 31
World Peace Congress, November 1950Second 36
The Communists' "Peace" Campaign Within the United States 39
Petition Campaign in U. S. A 40
Information CenterPeace 42
William Edward Burghardt DuBois 43
Abbott Simon 46
Comments Signature CampaignAmerican on 1 47
Use of Front Organizations 51 Peace Crusade 51
Maryland Committee for Peace 54
Committee for Peaceful Alternatives to the Atlantic Pact 54
Mid-Century Conference for Peace 58
Exploitation of Religion in the "Peace" Campaign 61
National Labor for Peace 64
Marcel Scherer 69
"Peace" Riot 70
The "Peace" Campaign Directed at Women's Groups 71
The Strategy for Youth and Students 77
Association of Internes and Medical Students 79
Prague Congress 79
Labor Youth League 80
Leon Wofsy 81
Subversion of Scientists Through the "Peace" Movement 82
Linus Carl Pauling 85
Philip D. Morrison 87
Johannes Steel 90
Role of the Moscow Radio in the "Peace" Campaign 95
Appendixes:
Articles Dealing withI. the World Peace Congress Appearing in "For
a Lasting Peace, for a People's Democracy" 99
II. Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, held in New
York City, March Communist AflSliations25, 26, and 27, 1949, of
Sponsors 104
III. Americans Sponsoring the World Peace Congress held in Paris,
April 1101949
IV. Members of the Permanent Committee of the World Peace Congress- 112
V. Call to the American Continental Congress for Mexico City,Peace,
116September 5-10, 1949
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PageAppendixes—Continued
Sponsoring Committee for Representation at the SecondVI. American
World Peace Congress 118
"World Appeal" adopted by the Permanent InternationalVII.
World Peace Congress, United States Youth Spon-Committee,
soring Committee 119
of Work of National Committee, Communist Party, U. S. A.,VIII. Plan
Day, 1950July 15 to Labor 120
List of Sponsors, by States, of Stockholm Appeal 124IX.
Peace Crusade, various documents, etc 135X. American
of Maryland Committee for Peace 142XI. List of Sponsors
Call to Mid-Century Conference for Peace, May 29, 30, 1950, Ini-XII.
Sponsors 143tiating
Talks Pact for War Statement on theXIII. Labor Wants Peace not a —a
North Atlantic Pact together with signers.__ 152
Labor Conference for Peace, Chicago, 111., OctoberXIV. Call to a National
Committee Sponsors 1571 and 2, 1949—Arrangements and
Conference for Peace Called by Ohio Unionists 163XV.
Council—Members elected at Second World PeaceXVI. World Peace
Congress 164ILLUSTRATIONS
Page
arm in arm with Alexander Fadeev, SovietFigure 1: American delegates,
woman,whip of the World Peace Congress. Left to right: Unidentified
Albert Kahn, Mr. Fadeev, and Johannes Steel. (In De-Rockwell Kent,
fense of Peace, April 1950, p. 51) 29
2: Cartoon urging sit-down strikes against munition shipments forFigure
Communists. In (Defense of Peace, official organ,troops fighting the
World Peace Congress, January 1950, p. 43) 30
3: World Peace Appeal, petition blank, issued by the CampaignFigure
Appeal 33Committee for the World Peace
of citizens ofFigure 4: This photograph shows the thumbprint signatures
Equatorial Africa who endorsed the World Peace Appeal. TheseFrench
women who never had thefingerprint signatures are those of men and
thechance to learn to write. Thus, they could not be expected to read
Worker, August 1 4) 35petition (Dailv 24, 950, p.
Facing 40Figure 5: The June 11, 1950, p. 1 6: Mid-Century Conference for Peace, 30 North Dearborn Street,
Program 144Chicago 2, 111., Conference
VPresident Truman, in a radio address to the Nation on September 1,
1950:
coopera-The Soviet Union has repeatedly violated its pledges of international
tion. It has destroyed the independence of its neighbors. It has sought to
countries it could not dominate. It has built up tremendousdisrupt those
defense.armed forces far beyond the needs of its own
Communist imperialism preaches peace but practices aggression.
John Foster Dulles, Republican adviser to the State Department,
subcommittee, Julyin testimony before a Senate Foreign Relations
5, 1950:
* * * of communism are, before ventur-it is my opinion that the leaders
theying an open war, trying to create a public opinion of the world to believe that
the nations that stand for peace and that we are the Nation that stands forare
progress in doing that * * *war, and they have made very good
loversThey know that everybody wants peace, and if they can pose as the of
perhaps they can risk war.peace, then,