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2152 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT TESTIMONY OF ELIZABETH MOOS, ACCOMPANIED BY COUNSEL, TELFORD TAYLOR Mr. NiTTLE. Would you state your full name and residence, please? Miss Moos. Elizabeth Moos, 552 Riverside Drive, New York City. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you represented bj'^ counsel, Miss Moos? Miss Moos. I am. Mr. NiTTLE. Would counsel please identify himself for the record? Mr. Taylor. Telford Tavlor, 400 Madison Avenue, New York Mr. DoYLE. May I inquire, were you in the hearing room yesterday, Miss Moos, to hear this preliminary statement? Miss Moos. I was in the hearing room. I regret very much that that statement, however, was not repeated for the benefit of those people who didn't hear it, because I believe that they may not have a clear picture of what the committee is trying to do. Mr. Doyle. Well, your distinguished counsel was here and heard the statement read, and you heard it read, and that is why I wanted to make sure that you had. Miss Moos. I was here, j^es. Mr. Nittle. What is your marital status? I merely am inquiring whether you are presently single or married, that is all. Miss Moos. I am presently single. Mr. Nittle. Would you state the date and place of your birth? Miss Moos. I was born on February 12—a good day, Lincoln 1890, in Chicago, 111. Mr. Nittle. Would you relate the extent of your formal education? Miss Moos. I graduated from Smith College in 1911, with the usual A.B. degree. I then went to Wellesley and took an advance education course in education and physical education. After some years, I went to Columbia and took graduate courses in anthropology. In 1947^8, I entered Columbia University, where I received my M.A. in Slavic literature, and also the certificate of the Institute for Russian Studies. Oh, and in addition, 3 years ago when I decided I wished to go back and get a little more firsthand information about present school education in this country, because that is my field, I took courses at Bank Street College in order to equip myself to work, and did so. Mr. Nittle. What is your present occupation? Miss Moos. I am retired. Mr. Nittle. You have not, however, completely abandoned all activity; have you? Miss Moos. At a time of history like this, I don't see how anyone can sit in a rocking chair and knit. This is the time when we all ought to be active. Mr. Nittle. As a matter of fact, you have been active, have you not, in an organization known as the Metropolitan branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom? Miss Moos. I have worked with them in what way I could in a very minor capacity. I have never been an officer, I have never had any position which had anything to do with planning, policymaking. I have stuffed envelopes and I have gone to meetings. I have done aU the minor little jobs that one can do. —
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2153 Mr. NiTTLE. Yes, you have participated in meetings of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and you have been active in discussion groups, or discussions conducted at such meetings; have you not? Miss Moos. I have not. I have been present, and if you mean by participation, have I attended, and naturally spoken up when there are discussions going on; yes, I have. Mr. NiTTLE. You indicated that in this period you could not remain inactive. There was a past period some years ago when you were likewise active in matters similar to that in which you are now engaged. Were you not formerly the director of the Peace Information Center? Miss Moos. I was. The executive secretary was the correct title. This organization, it should be said, is one which existed, let me see, 12 years ago, for a brief period, and does not exist. Mr. NiTTLE. All right. Now we will talk a little more about it. It is the committee's information that the Peace Information Center assumed as its principal task the circulation of the World Peace Appeal, also known as the Stockholm Peace Appeal. This appeal was issued in March 1950 by a Communist-controlled organization known as the Permanent Committee of the World Peace Congress, which met in Stockholm, Sweden. It is our information that you attended the World Peace Congress held in Paris in April 1949 and that you subsequently niade a report of your attendance there to a convention of the Communist-controlled Congress of American Women at its convention in May 1949. Were you m attendance at the World Peace Congress held in Paris in April 1949? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. Yes, I am very proud to say that I was in Paris at the convention in 1949. Obviously, I—I must make a statement. My statement of the fact that I attended this in no way agrees with your characterization of it, however. Mr. NiTTLE. Well, we shall see. Miss Moos, the Permanent Committee of the World Peace Congress met in March 1950 to launch the World Peace Appeal. You are aware of the fact that it did meet in March 1950 to launch that World Peace Appeal, are you not? Miss Moos. I read it in the papers. Mr. NiTTLE. At the time. Miss Moos. After it. Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, you will recollect that the meeting of the World Peace Congress— -the Permanent Committee thereof^— ^was just 3 months before the Communist invasion of South Korea. Did you, Miss Moos, pursuant to instructions or advice received from persons known to you to be members of the Communist Party, participate in the organization of the Peace Information Center on or about May 1950 for the purpose of circulating the World Peace Appeal in the United States? Miss Moos. I did not. Now, the answer to this- question should probably be qualified. When you ask three or four questions—what is known as a loaded question—I think I have a right to ask you to divide them up. If you ask whether I sat in at a meeting at which 93367 O—63 8
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