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2154 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT the possible desirability of setting up something to be known as a Peace Information Center was discussed, the answer is yes. What you have stated as its purpose was not true. At that time, the Peace Information Center was discussed because many people felt that activities were going on all over our country and the world and that somebody ought to let it be known, let one peace group know what another was doing. That was its sole purpose when it was set up. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you engage in the activities of the Peace Information Center in response to your understanding of Communist directives at that time to engage in such activity? Miss Moos. Certainly not. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you a letter marked for identification as Moos Exhibit No. 1, which is dated May 17, 1950. It bears the letterhead Peace Information Center. Miss Moos. Where is "Exhibit 1"? This says '"Exhibit 2." Mr. NiTTLE. That should be identified as "1," actually. I have it previously marked with a "2." You have corrected that, Mr. Taylor? Mr. Taylor. Yes. Mr. NiTTLE. The oflBcers of the organization are designated on the letter and your name, ''Elizabeth Moos," appears as the director. Now, your name appears thereon as the director of the Peace Information Center. Miss Moos. You are correct. I had thought I was caUed executive director. I was not. (Document marked "Moos Exhibit No. 1" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. The letter states, does it not, that a Peace Information Center has been set up in New York City and that its purpose is to bring news of "peace activities" here and throughout the world. The letter bears what appears to be the signature of Elizabeth Moos, director, and that is yom- signatiu-e on that letter; is it not? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. Yes, that is my signatm-e. Mr. NiTTLE. Your organization also issued booklets titled Peacegram. Miss Moos. They were not booklets, they were just what it said, Peacegram, which was a brief announcement of what was going on. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you a copy of one such issue, which is marked for identification as Moos Exhibit No. 2. You will note the claim therein that after 6 weeks of signature gathering, about 1}^ million Americans had signed the World Peace Appeal and that this figure helped to swell the world total of some 250 million, a number which you claimed equaled one-tenth of the earth's population. The Peacegram also indicates that more than one-half of the U.S. signatures were gathered after the Communist invasion of South Korea. Now, from what somce did you obtain the information about the total number of signers of that Appeal? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. I am sorry. I must say that I have never seen this before. I was not with the organization at the time that this was issued, so I am afraid I can't give you any information &,bout it. I served with them for a very brief period.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2155 (Document marked "Moos Exhibit No. 2" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. What was the period of your service? Miss Moos. I think you have the date at which a group met to discuss the desirabihty. I have forgotten what that was. That spring, I resigned. I was not well. Mr. NiTTLE. You organized it, and then got out of it? Miss Moos. I did not organize it. I was asked whether I would help on it, and I did, for a brief period. I did not ever see this document. Mr. NiTTLE. Were you asked to become the director of it by any person known to you to be a member of the Communist Party? Miss Mqos. No. Mr. NiTTLE. At that time. Dr. W. E. B. DuBois was chairman of the Peace Information Center. He has recently admitted his Communist Party membership, and I think the matter was published some months ago in the New York Times. Did you then know Dr. DuBois to be a member of the Communist Party? Miss Moos. Dr. DuBois was not a member of the Communist Party at that time. If you will look at your papers, you will find that there was a great deal of excitement here and abroad when about 6 months ago. Dr. DuBois announced that, at the age of 93 or 94, he had finaUy decided that he wished to become a member of the Communist Party. He had never been a member of the Communist Party before that. Mr. NiTTLE. Several years before, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expelled Dr. DuBois from membership or official position in the NAACP because of Communist activities. Did they not do so in the forties? Miss Moos. I can't answer that question. Mr. NiTTLE. Now, also growing out of the World Peace Congress, which met in Paris in April 1949 and which you state you attended, was the estabhshment in this hemisphere of a gathering titled "American Continental Congress for Peace." That group, Mr. Chairman, is described in the committee's Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications as "aimed at consolidating anti-American forces throughout the Western Hemisphere." I hand you a copy of the Call to the American Continental Congress Jor Peace marked for identification as Moos Exhibit No. 3. That Call, you will observe, has for its purpose the establishment of an organizational meeting to take place at Mexico City, September 5-10, 1949. I direct your attention to the Women's Sponsoring Committee from the United States, and you will see Mr. Taylor. Where is that? We can't find it. Now we have it. Mr. NiTTLE. I direct your attention to the Women's Sponsoring Committee from the United States, and you will observe that the name, "Elizabeth Moos," appears thereon. Are you the Elizabeth Moos whose name appears upon that Call? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. I question the constitutional authority of this committee to require me to answer this question.
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