Communist activities in the peace movement (Women Strike for ...

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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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