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

2198 COISIMUNIST ACTIVITIES EST THE PEACE MOVEMENT
Rein was appointed as a member of a committee of fom* to arrange a
list of international contacts to be made by Women Strike for Peace,
that she was placed upon this group of four—
Mrs. Wilson. Wait a minute. I have lost track,
Mr. NiTTLE. All right. Let me put it this way. I stated that it
is the committee's information also that in March 1962 Mrs. Selma
Rein was appointed as a member of a committee of four to arrange a
list of international contacts to be made by Women Strike for Peace.
Mrs. Wilson. She couldn't have been so because nobody was ever
appointed.
Mr. NiTTLE. Just a moment.
Mrs. Wilson, Excuse me.
Mr. NiTTLE, Included within the group of four was the international
coordinator of the New York group of Women Strike for Peace, I
want to inquire, if you will respond to the question, whether Mrs.
Rein was appointed to a committee to arrange a list of international
contacts to be made by Women Strike for Peace.
Mrs. Wilson. Nobody has ever been appointed by anyone, you
see, in our movement.
Mr. NiTTLE. I think it is important to make this inquiry because
I spoke to you a moment ago of an article which appeared in the
March 28 issue of a Moscow publication anticipating the contact with
Women Strike for Peace, or stating that one had been made.
That particular article, to refer back to it and to refresh your
recollection, was the Moscow-published New Times, dated March 28,
1962, which declared that the Women's International Democratic
Federation, that is, a Moscow international front, was sponsoring the
Women's World Assembly for Disarmament, and the article stated
that the Women's International Democratic Federation had established
contact with Women Strike for Peace for attendance at that
Assembly. Indeed, you also testified in response to questions relating
to that, that this was the idea of your Washington group.
Therefore, I am inquiring whether Mrs. Selma Rein, who is a resident
of Washmgton and who appears to have been active at your Washington
headquarters, was, in fact, appointed in the Washington headquarters
as a member of a committee to arrange international contacts.
Mrs. Wilson. WeU, you have asked me so many things in one
there. First, there was an invitation I gather? I received an invitation
at my house. I presume that one was also sent to our Washington
office. I might explain that the Washington office is manned
by volunteers, who take it in turns to come in and out of that office
with their typewriters, a few hours in the afternoon, or one day a
week, or however it happens to fit into their schedules, and so on, so
it is quite possible that there was a duplicate at the office. _ I know
nothing about any one individual's connection with this thing whatever.
Mr. Nittle. Let me ask you this, Mrs. Wilson. Do you know
whether or not Mrs. Selma Rein established contact on behalf of your
group with the Women's International Democratic Federation in
Moscow?
Mrs. Wilson. I can say emphatically that she could not have done
so.
Mr. Nittle. What makes you say that she could not have done so?
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