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2192 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mrs. Wilson. Well, I am quite sure you know that this one originated spontaneously in many areas, because one of the things that we are violently against is nuclear testing. Mr. NiTTLE. Now, of com-se, Mrs. Wilson, I think you will agree that coordinated activities participated in by many people in many parts of the country on the same day do not occur "spontaneously." There must be a suggestion and some kind of communication. Mrs. Wilson. Certainly, all communications. Mr. NiTTLE. I also want to refer to a very spectacular instance, and that was the sending of 51 delegates to the Geneva disarmament conference in April 1962. I would like to ask whether the idea for doing this was originally conceived by you. Mrs. Wilson. No. Again, I wish I had thought of it. Mr. NiTTLE. Could you tell the committee, if you know, whether this idea originated from any member of the New York group? Mrs. Wilson. Well, I think this tune it was really New York's baby and I think they should be proud of it. Mr. NiTTLE. Was this matter arranged, and were plans made for this trip to Geneva, by the New York organization? Mrs. Wilson. Yes. The plans were very complicated, because it did involve sending women from all over the country, as you know. Mr. NiTTLE. Yes. Mrs. Wilson. And they were the ones that initiated the idea. I can explain that later on. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have any discussions on this subject with Mrs. Blanche Posner? Mrs. Wilson. No, I didn't. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have any discussions on the Geneva arrangement wnth Iris Freed? Mrs. Wilson. No. Mr. NiTTLE. I think she was in charge of sendoff pubhcity. Mrs. Wilson. She may have been. Mr. NiTTLE. At any rate she wasn't appointed by you, is that right? Mrs. Wilson. No, no. Lord no, not up in New York. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have any discussions with Mrs. Lyla Hoffman about it? Mrs. Wilson. No. Mr. NiTTLE. I want to hand you a copy of a document, previously marked for identification as Posner Exhibit No. 2, which is titled "Proposed Structure of Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Connecticut." Did you have any part Mr. Speiser. That isn't the title on this, Mr. Nittle. Mr. NiTTLE. This docmnent is titled "Proposed Plan of Structure and Procedure for Women Strike for Peace New York New Jersey Connecticut." Did 3'ou have any part in drawing up that proposed plan, Mrs. Wilson? Mrs. Wilson. No, I can tell you I didn't, but it was over my dead body. New York was trying its best to get me to come up there, jou know, and sort of settle their problems for them, and I discussed it with some of m}'^ friends down here and I said, "Look, those girls are having an awful time. There are so many of them they just don't seem to be able to get together." My friends said, "Don't baby them. They have to learn to grow up themselves."
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES EN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2193 Mr. NiTTLE. You did not have any part in drawing it up? Mrs. Wilson. No. Mr. NiTTLE. Was the proposal ever submitted to you for your approval or commentary? Mrs. Wilson. No. I mean this is completely against our principle. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you Posner Exhibit No. 1, which is the actual structural plan adopted by, or utilized by, Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Did you have any part in formulating that plan? Mrs. Wilson. No. The reason I was reading this is because— well, I am sorry. That amused me very, very much. No, I had no part in this plan. I know^ exactly why it was done, though, and I would be glad to tell you about it. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have any discussions with respect to that plan? Mrs. Wilson. Yes. Mr. NiTTLE. With leaders of the New York group? Mrs. Wilson. I don't Imow if you would call them leaders. I said we were all leaders so I guess they were leaders. Yes, we had lengthy telephone conversations and Mr. NiTTLE. Telephone conversations only? You did not appear in New York? Mrs. Wilson. Yes, but I am not sure it was directly connected with this. It was a little bit, I guess, before they decided to make a structural plan. This has been one of our big problems, shall I say, in our own organization since the beginning. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have any discussions with Blanche Posner, Iris Freed, or Lyla Hoffman with respect to that plan? Mrs. Wilson. Well, not specifically with respect to that plan, no. We did discuss ways and means of doing things, j^es. Mr. NiTTLE. I take it that in the New York discussions you had occasion to talk to Mrs. Posner, Mrs. Freed, and Mrs. Hoffman. Mrs. Wilson. Not in the early days, no. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you have occasion to discuss Posner Exhibit 1 with them? Mrs. Wilson. No. Mr. NiTTLE. Or any of them? Mrs. Wilson. No. Mr. NiTTLE. The Communist newspaper, The Worker, of February 25, 1962, reported that you took part in and spoke at the Women Strike for Peace picketing of the United Nations headquarters in New York City on February 20, 1962. You did speak at the New York U.N. picketing on that date, did you not? Mrs. Wilson. I prefer you to caU it a demonstration. Picketing sounds so hostile. Yes, I spoke there. Mr. NiTTLE. That newspaper reported: When Mrs. Dagmar Wilson, a Washington D.C. housewife who initiated this woman's movement for peace rose to speak there was silence. It was the first time Mrs. Wilson had participated in a New York peace action. Was that journal correct in saying that this was the first time you had participated in any Women Strike for Peace action in New York? Mrs. Wilson. Well, it was the first time I had participated in a public peace action.
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