2140 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT • you can state <strong>the</strong> degree of your participation. Was.<strong>the</strong> plan discussed at meet<strong>in</strong>gs of <strong>the</strong> Central Coord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g Committee? Mrs. Mackenzie. I don't know that <strong>the</strong> Central Coord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g Committee did anyth<strong>in</strong>g. The Central Coord<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g Committee is someth<strong>in</strong>g that you have given great stature to and made it sound almost as important as a congressional committee. In Connecticut, we don't take it very seriously. but we don't. Perhaps we should, Mr. NiTTLE. Well, Mrs. Mackenzie, maj^be you can tell us whe<strong>the</strong>r an organization known as <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace has any existence. Does it? Mrs. Mackenzie. There is a group <strong>the</strong>mselves <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace. of women who have called Mr. NiTTLE. Includ<strong>in</strong>g Mrs. Blanche Posner, Mrs. Hoffman Mrs. Mackenzie. Who is—— Mr. NiTTLE.—o<strong>the</strong>r witnesses you have heard, and, of course, yourself? Mrs. Mackenzie. I have told you that I have participated proudly <strong>in</strong> some of <strong>the</strong> actions of <strong>the</strong> <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace. Mr. NiTTLE. Now it appears, Mrs. Mackenzie, that one of your <strong>activities</strong> <strong>in</strong> that organization, and perhaps <strong>the</strong> most conspicuous propaganda ef<strong>for</strong>t of <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace, was <strong>the</strong> send<strong>in</strong>g of delegates from this organization to <strong>the</strong> disarmament conference at Geneva, Switzerland, <strong>in</strong> April 1962. The committee's <strong>in</strong>vestigation discloses that you were <strong>in</strong> charge of publicity <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> sendoff of <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace to Geneva. Did you have such a publicity function? Mrs. Mackenzie. I was proud to have some small part <strong>in</strong> that delegation to Geneva <strong>in</strong> support of our Government and <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r people who were work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong>re <strong>for</strong> <strong>peace</strong> and general disarmament, which we all believe <strong>in</strong>, but I had no such responsibility at <strong>the</strong> time of <strong>the</strong> send<strong>in</strong>g. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you three items which are marked <strong>for</strong> identification as Mackenzie Exhibits Nos. 1, 2, and 3. Mr. NiTTLE. The three exhibits bear <strong>the</strong> impr<strong>in</strong>t of <strong>Women</strong> <strong>Strike</strong> <strong>for</strong> Peace. The first item, you will note, is addressed "to all our key women" and is a plan of action relat<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>the</strong> Geneva expedition. The second item is a petition, addressed "to <strong>the</strong> 17-Nation Disarmament Conference on behalf of women and children everywhere." The third item is a flier dated March 16, 1962, entitled "geneva, here we come ! ! ! " Did you participate <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> preparation or dissem<strong>in</strong>ation of any of <strong>the</strong>se items, or all of <strong>the</strong>m? Mrs. Mackenzie. Sir, I question <strong>the</strong> constitutional authority of this committee to ask me whe<strong>the</strong>r I prepared written material. I th<strong>in</strong>k I have a right to prepare petitions, to sign petitions, whe<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>y be nom<strong>in</strong>at<strong>in</strong>g petitions or petitions <strong>for</strong> general and universal disarmament. (Documents marked "Macljenzie Exhibits Nos. 1, 2, and 3," respectively. Exhibits Nos. 1 and 3 appear on pp. 2141, 2142 and 2143, 2144, respectively. Exhibit No. 2 reta<strong>in</strong>ed <strong>in</strong> committee files.)
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