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2150 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT declined to answer other questions. I had a right to join the American Student Union, if I did. Mr. NiTTLE. You did not invoke the fifth amendment privilege the self-incrimination clause—of the Constitution in refusing to respond to that question? Mrs. Mackenzie. Are you suggesting it is criminal to have joined the American Student Union, or to have worked for peace? Mr, NiTTLE. I am asking whether or not you are invoking the fifth amendment clause—self-incrimination privilege—in your refusal to respond to that question. Mrs. Mackenzie. No, I am not. Mr. NiTTLE. Were you a member of the Young Communist League during your attendance at Vassar College? Mrs. Mackenzie. I refuse to answer the question on the same grounds. Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, I respectfully request that the witness be directed to answer the question. Mr. Doyle. I direct you to answer that question, Mrs. Mackenzie. Mrs. Mackenzie. I decline to answer it on the ground stated. Mr. NiTTLE. You are not invoking the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment. Is that correct? Mrs. Mackenzie. That is correct. Mr. NiTTLE. I should make a further explanation, Mrs. Mackenzie, that the question is related, of course, to that of present Communist Party, membership. Mrs, Mackenzie. I beg your pardon? Mr. NiTTLE. The question is related to the question of any present Communist Party membership on your part. Mrs. Mackenzie. It seems to me that that is an unbecoming thing to happen in the Halls of Congress. Mr. NiTTLE. There is a principle in the law that a condition once shown to exist is presumed to continue. Mrs. Mackenzie. No condition has been shown to exist. Mr. NiTTLE. And in view of the subject matter of this inquiry today, we are also seeking information to determine whether or not you are engaged in activities in Women Strike for Peace in response to Communist directives. It is, therefore, relevant to determine whether or not you are a member of the Communist Party, and with that explanation, Mr. Chairman, I respectfully request that the witness be directed to answer the question of whether or not she was, while in attendance at Vassar College, a member of the Young Communist League. Mr. Doyle. I thought I had instructed you, Mrs. Mackenzie, but if I have not, I do instruct you to answer that question. Mrs. Mackenzie. I decline to answer. These are not questions. These are stones that are being thrown at me. Mr. NiTTLE. The official organ of the American Student Union was titled Student Advocate. In the Student Advocate of December 1936, there appeared an item reportedly written by Anna DeCormis, editor, Vassar Miscellany News. (Witness conferred with counsel.) —
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2151 Mr. NiTTLE. Did you make any contribution to the Student Advocate, the official organ of the American Student Union? Mr. Taylor. The witness would hke a minute's recess. Mr. NiTTLE. I have no further questions after her response to the last, and we would respectfully request an answer to it. Mrs. Mackenzie. Would you repeat the question, please? Mr. Doyle. Are you ready. Counsel? Mr. Nittle. Yes, sir. Did you, under the name Anna DeCormis and as editor of the Vassar Miscellany News, contribute an article or articles to a magazine entitled Student Advocate, which was the official organ of the American Student Union? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Mackenzie. I dechne to answer on the ground previously stated. I had a right to write for whatever publication I chose, if I did write. Mr. Doyle. What, Mr. Nittle, was the Student Union? Mr. Nittle. The American Student Union was a Communist front organized some years ago, and one of its activities was to participate at that time in the peace movements then initiated and emphasized during the Stalin period. Investigations have established that the American Student Union was one of the organizations estabhshed by the Cornmunist Party to conduct peace agitation and continued to exist during the period of the Hitler-Stalin Pact. Mr. Doyle. And it was about those organizations that you made inquiry? Mr. Nittle. Yes, sir. Further, Mr. Doyle, as I previously stated to the witness, the American Student Union was created by the Communist Party to win the masses of student youth generally to the objectives of the Communist Party. It was extremely active immediately preceding World War II and particularly active in engaging in peace agitation, seeking to prevent the participation of the United States in the war against Nazi Germany at a time when the Hitler-StaHn Pact was in existence, from 1939 to 1941. Mrs. Mackenzie. I left college in 1937. I don't see the relevancy of any of this, Mr. Doyle. Mr. Doyle. Any other questions, Mr. Nittle? Mr. NiTTLE. No, sir. The staff interrogation is concluded. Mr. Doyle. Any questions, Governor? Mr. Tuck. I have no questions. Mr. Doyle. Any questions, Mr. Bruce? Mr. Bruce. I have no questions. Mr. Doyle. Thank you, Mrs. Mackenzie. Call your next witness, Mr. Nittle, please. Mr. Nittle. Would Elizabeth Moos please come forward? Mr. Doyle. Witness, will you please raise your right hand? Do you solemnly swear that you will tell th» truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God? Miss Moos. I do.
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