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2128 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT Miss Clinton. Do I understand that you are directing me to answer that question? Mr. NiTTLE. I have asked for your basis for refusal to respond to the question. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Mr. NiTTLE. And I ask specifically whether you are invoking the self-incrimination clause of the fifth amendment of the Constitution. Miss Clinton. I still stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Mr. Chairman, in view of the witness' response, I respectfully request that she be directed to answer the question. Mr. DoYLE. I direct you to answer that question, Witness, and may I ask that you speak a httle louder? There is still a little noise in the hearing room, and the committee cannot quite hear everything you say. But if you heard the counsel's question to you—did you hear his question to you? Miss Clinton. Yes. Mr, Doyle. I direct you to answer that question. Miss Clinton. In that event, I must also invoke my constitutional privilege under the fifth. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you tell us how the West Side Peace Committee carne into existence? And how you were appointed to, or assumed the position of, secretary and membership cliairman of that committee? Miss Clinton. I stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Miss CHnton, in the course of the Senate investigation of a New York group designated the Greater New York Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy7 Henry Abrams, a prominent leader of that group and the unpublicized chief organizer of its May 1960 Madison Square Garden Rally, was revealed as a Communist and expelled from the national organization of SANE in January 1961. He thereafter formed an organization titled the "Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups" and served as its chairman. The Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups established executive officers and an executive committee for the coordination of supporting local neighborhood groups. It is the committee's information that you. Rose Chnton, were one of the initial members of the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups. Do you affirm or deny this assertion of fact? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Clinton. I still stand on my previous answer. Air. Nittle. It is the committee's information that the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups established no office, but utihzed a mailing and telephone service at 550 Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, New York. Would 3^ou corroborate that information for the benefit of the committee? Miss Clinton. I still stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. It is also our information that the West Side Peace Committee is one of the neighborhood groups established and operating in support of the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups. Was the West Side Peace Committee established as a supporting group for the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups? Miss Clinton. I question the committee's authority to ask the question and I stand on my previous response.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2129 Mr. NiTTLE. It is further our information that the West Side Peace Committee has been scheduled to meet monthly, with featured speakers; that this group had recently a paid-up membership of approximately 95 persons and maintained a mailing list of approximately 800 persons; and that the West vSide Peace Committee maintains a representative on the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups. Could you as secretary of the West Side Peace Committee corroborate this information? Miss Clinton. I stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Do you know Henry Abrams, the chairman of the Conference of Greater New York Peace Groups? Miss Clinton. I stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Do you know him to be a member of the Communist Party? Miss Clinton. Previous answer. Mr. Doyle. May I ask again, please, that you speak a little louder? Miss Clinton. I am sorry. Mr. Doyle. Speak right into the mouthpiece, there. Miss Clinton. I have stage fright. Mr. NiTTLE. Does the West Side Peace Committee presently maintain any oflEices and, if so, would you state the office address? Miss Clinton. I invoke the right to stand on my previous answer. Mr. NiTTLE. It is our information that the West Side Peace Committee maintains no office except an address at the personal residence of one Ceil Gross, at 145 West 96th Street, Apartment 10-A, New York City; telephone RI 9-0506. Is that the official address of the West Side Peace Committee? Miss Clinton. My answer is the same. Mr. NiTTLE. Do you perform your duties as secretary at the residence of Ceil Gross? Miss Clinton. My answer is the same. Mr. NiTTLE. At what place does your organization, the West Side Peace Committee, maintain its mailing list of approximately 800 persons? Miss Clinton. Same. Mr. Doyle. May I ask that you be a little bit more explicit, instead of just saying "same"? Miss Clinton. I shall repeat what I said before. I question Mr. DoYLE. That wiU be unnecessary, if you will just say "the same as my previous answer." Miss Clinton. Thank you. The same as my previous answer. Mr. Doyle. If you will just say that, instead of just the word "same." Miss Clinton. Thank you. Mr. NiTTLE. Were you appointed to the position of secretary and membership chairman of the West Side Peace Committee by any person known to be a member of the Communist^ Party? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Miss Clinton. The same. My answer is the same as the previous answer. Mr. Nittle. Miss Clinton, on Jul}'' 11, 1951, Mrs. Mary Stalcup Markward, who had been an undercover operative for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1943 to 1949, serving in the Communist
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