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2156 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT I also question its pertinency to any matter you are authorized to inquire into in this year, 1962. I, therefore, invoke my right under the Constitution, in that I can't be required to be a witness against myself, and decline to answer. (Document marked "Moos Exhibit No. 3" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. Now, I noted, Miss Moos, that you raised the question as to the authority of the committee and the pertinency of the question, and you then said "I, therefore, invoke," what I take to be the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment. It is my understanding-—and I believe your own counsel will advise you —that you cannot invoke the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment because you believe that the committee has no authority or because you believe the question is not pertinent; you may invoke it only because you believe that an answer to the question may subject you to a criminal prosecution. Therefore, I must ask whether you assert the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment for the reason that you believe an answer to the question will possibly subject you to a criminal prosecution? Miss Moos. I invoke my rights under the fifth amendment of the Constitution that no person shall be forced to bear witness against himself and, therefore, I decline to answer. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. I am invoking the fifth amendment. I am invoking all of the provisions which are pertinent. Mr. NiTTLE. Miss Moos, the American Russian Institute of San Francisco, with offices at 101 Post Street, was cited in September 1948 by Attorney General Clark as a Communist organization in a letter to the Loyalty Review Board. It appears that in the year 1943, at a time when you may have recovered from your illness, the American Russian Institute published a booklet titled We Pledge Peace, a Friendship Book. The Friendship Book contained an item at page 53 entitled "The World Will Rejoice," under the byline of Elizabeth Moos, who is described as an educator and founder of the Hessian Hills School. A copy of this article, which I hand you, is marked Moos Exhibit No. 4. Were you author of that article? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. May I ask counsel to repeat the date which you gave, which I am quite sure was erroneous. Mr. NiTTLE. The article appears to have been published in the year 1953. Miss. Moos. You said 1943 before. Mr. NiTTLE. If I did, I wish to correct it. It was an inadvertence. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. I stand on my prior claim. (Document marked "Moos Exhibit No. 4" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. Miss Moos, did you participate in any of the demonstrations conducted by the New York group of Women Strike for Peace? Miss Moos. I am sure I must have. Wlienever I saw a crowd of women with signs saying, "We don't want any more poison in our babies' milk," I would drop whatever I was doing and go and walk
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2157 with them, and I am sure that quite often it must have been some of the Women Strike for Peace, because they have done a lot of it. Mr. NiTTLE. Yes; there are all kinds of poison in this world, and for that reason, I must ask you a question which will follow. In an appearance before the U.S. Senate Investigations Subcommittee, Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, on Friday, July 30, 1948, William W. Remington identified you as his mother-in-law and as a Communist. He testified that you once held a position as a director of the Hessian Hills School in Croton and that you were forced out of that position when your Communist affiliations were revealed. He indicated that a person named Alvin Warren, who had fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, came to live at your home and completed your conversion to communism, a conversion in which Joseph North, the editor of the Communist New Masses, now a contributor to The Worker, participated, and who had been brought to your home by Alvin Warren about the year 1940. Was there any inaccuracy in the testimony of William W. Remington which I have summarized? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Moos. I stand on my prior claim. Mr. NiTTLE. Herbert A. Philbrick, an undercover operative for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who appeared before this committee on July 6, 1953, testified that on one occasion, before the Reverend Hewlett Jolmson, Dean of Canterbury, commonly known as the "Red" Dean, came to this country, instructions were received from Communist Party headquarters to prepare for the arrival of the Red Dean and to give him a welcome in Boston. Herbert Philbrick testified that he was assigned to work with you and that he did so at your apartment on Walnut Street in Boston. Do you wish to offer any correction or explanation of Mr. Philbrick's testimony? Miss Moos. Once again I invoke my privilege under the fifth amendment and decline to answer your question. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you now a member of the Communist Party, Miss Moos? Miss Moos. I repeat, under the fifth amendment, I invoke my privilege under the fifth amendment and decline to answer your question. Mr. NiTTLE. Is your present participation in the peace movement a response to Communist directives to engage in such? Miss Moos. Before answering that, I think I must make a statement that I think this committee is doing a terrible disservice to America and to everyone in the world— Mr. NiTTLE. Now, will you please answer that question? Miss Moos. I will be heard^—when they try to attribute every act, every conscious act that is done for peace to the Communists. Are they the onl}^ ones? Do you think they want peace more than we do? Having made this statement, I dechne to answer your question on the grounds of the fifth amendment. Mr. NiTTLE. The staff has no further questions. Mr. DoYLE. Any questions, Governor? Mr. Tuck. I have no questions. Mr. Doyle. Mr. Bruce? —
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