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2074 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES EST THE PEACE MOVEMENT Mr. NiTTLE. Mrs. Posner, would you relate the extent of your formal education? Mrs. Posner. Well, I got a B.A. degree from Hunter College. I took postgraduate work at New York University, City College, and Columbia, where I almost got an M.A., but I got bored. Mr. NiTTLE. What is your present occupation? Mrs. Posner. Housewife. Mr. NiTTLE. Prior to that, were you occupied as a teacher? Mrs. Posner. Yes, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Do you hold an official position in an organization known as Women Strike for Peace? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Posner. I must decline to answer that question and I should be very grateful if you would let me say why. Mr. NiTTLE. We are only interested in whether or not you are presenting a legal reason and basis for your refusal to testify. Therefore, I will ask you simply this, and ask you not to make a statement but to respond to the inquiry: Do you assign as your basis for your refusal to testify the constitutional privilege of the fifth amendment? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Posner. I should like to decline to answer the question, but I must please plead with you to let me say why. I have Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, I respectfully request that the witness be directed to answer the question addressed to her. Mr. Doyle. I instruct the witness to answer the question. We believe it is a pertinent question and entirely proper. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. Posner. I don't know, sir, why I am here, but I do know why you are here. I think Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, I must ask for regular order. Mrs. Posner. —because you don't quite understand the nature of this movement. This movement was inspired and motivated by mothers' love for their children. Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman? Mrs. Posner. When they were putting their breakfast on the table, they saw not only wheaties and milk, but they also saw strontium 90 and iodine 131. Mr. Doyle. Just a moment. Mrs. Posner. They feared for the health and life of their children. That is the only motivation. Mr. Doyle. Witness! Now, Witness Mrs. Posner. If you gentlemen have children or grandchildren, you should be grateful to the Women Strike for Peace, or whatever peace movement is working to stop nuclear testing. Every nuclear test has resulted in malformations, has resulted in stillbirths, has resulted in leukemia, has resulted in cancer, has resulted in the possibility of a nuclear holocaust. I have given to you gentlemen this statement which presents some of the reasons why women are concerned.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2075 Mr. Doyle. Now, Witness, just a minute. I will have to declare you out of order. If you insist on interrupting the hearing, we will have to ask that you be removed from the hearing room. I do not want to do that, and you do not want it. So please cooperate. You have made your little speech. Now proceed and either cooperate with the committee or not, just as you choose. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mr. Doyle. I order and direct you to answer that question. We beheve it is pertinent, legally. You have made your speech, and we have been glad to give you 2 or 3 minutes to make it. But that is it. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mrs. PosNER. Bj^ virtue of the statement, this will be just the one sentence, Mr. Doyle, by virtue of the statement that you read at this hearing, I must at this point decline to cooperate with the committee and thank God that the framers of our Constitution and the Bill of Rights included the fifth amendment, which I now invoke. Mr. DoYLE. All right. Mr. NiTTLE. Are you invoking the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment, Mrs. Posner? Mrs. PosNER. Yes, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. I hand you a document marked for identification as Posner Exhibit No. 1. This document is entitled ''STRUCTURE FOR WOMEN STRIKE FOR PEACE METROPOLITAN N.Y. NEW JERSEY CONN." I call your attention to the last item on page 3 of this exhibit, which indicates that you were, and perhaps still are, chairman pro tem of the Office Committee of Women Strike for Peace, Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Are you the chairman pro tem of the Office Committee of Women Strike for Peace for Metropolitan New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut? Mrs. PosNER. I must refuse to answer on the same grounds of the fifth amendment. (Document marked "Posner Exhibit No. 1" follows:)
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