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2062 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT committee because "No one has ever been appointed to anything" in Women Strike for Peace. People do volunteer for jobs, she added. The witness said that she did not have any knowledge that Mrs. Rein had served as a volunteer on a committee to make a hst of international contacts for WSP. Mrs. Wilson testified that she had no knowledge that Mrs. Selma Rein had been identified as a member of the Communist Party. Committee counsel informed her that Mrs. Rein had been so identified before this committee on December 13, 1955, by a former member of the Communist Party. When subpenaed to appear before the committee on February 28, 1956, to explain or deny her alleged membership in the Communist Party, Mrs. Rein invoked the fifth amendment. Near the conclusion of her testimony, Mrs. Wilson was asked if she would knowingly permit or encom-age a Communist Party member to occupy a leadership position in Women Strike for Peace. She replied: Well, my dear sir, I have absolutely no way of controlling, do not desire to control, who wishes to join in the demonstrations and the efforts that the women strikers have made for peace. She was then asked if she would knowingly permit or welcome Nazis or Fascists to occupy leadership positions in Women Strike for Peace. She said: Whether we could get them or not, I don't think we could. The committee counsel's final question to Mrs. Wilson—and her reply—were as follows: Counsel. Am I correct, then, in assimiing that you plan to take no action designed to prevent Communists from assuming positions of leadership in the movement or to eliminate Communists who may have already obtained such positions? Mrs. Wilson. Certainly not. I Despite the fact that this is the response recorded by the official reporter for the hearings, newspapermen covering the hearings reported^and members of the committee and its staff distinctly recaU—that Mrs. Wilson's actual reply to the preceding question was: "If only we could get them on our sidel" ^
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT (Women Strike for Peace and Certain Other Groups) TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962 United States House of Representatives, Subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities, Washington, D.C. public hearings The subcommittee of the Committee on Un-American Activities met, pursuant to call, at 10 a.m., in the Caucus Room, Cannon House Office Building, Washington, D.C, Hon. Clyde Doyle (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Subcommittee members present: Representatives Clyde Doyle, of California, and William M. Tuck, of Virginia. Staff members present: Francis J. McNamara, director; Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., general counsel; Alfred M. Nittle, counsel; and Raymond T. Collins, investigator. Mr. Doyle. The subcommittee will please come to order. In view of the crowded condition of the hearing room, I know we will all cooperate and accommodate ourselves to that fact in order that the committee may proceed promptly in performance of its duties. We are asking the utmost cooperation of everyone in the hearing room; I am sure we will have it. In the absence of having it, of course, the committee will have to exercise its prerogative and obligation to see that the committee is not interrupted in any manner in its official obhgations. Are you ready, Counsel? Mr. Nittle. Yes, sir. Mr. Doyle, Are you ready. Governor? Mr. Tuck. Yes, sir. Mr. Doyle. I might announce that today the subcommittee will consist of myself, Congressman Doyle of California, and William Tuck of Virginia, formerly the distinguished Governor of that wonderful State. Mr. Bruce, the other member of the subcommittee, is not present this morning but will be in the afternoon. Two of the three designated members of the subcommittee are present so there is a quorum, and we wiU proceed. Before we hear the first witness, I have a prepared statement I wish to read, which will give to everyone in the hearmg room an outline of what the objectives of these hearings today are: Everyone in the world, every nation in the world—if you can believe their words—wants peace. The cry is universal. It comes from neutrahsts, from Communists, from anti-Communists. Yet there is 2063
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