“ wes? pe Security / [gemat ort | a OWT), Tetas, WEEKLY SUMMARY OF DOMESTIC smite, a ee ee (0 tat suofie sp - ao! POW ASKS WIFE 20 JOIN IN caMParcN FoR wAktD Be 7 ; | / (Confidential) rhas*recently Ry MKS: Thom eS — pw wasn” a ee a world peace". . After reiterating the need for world peace, the POW asked his “ a World a his wife to join hin in his "work in the fight oes ‘ wife "to sit down and write 5 letters. supporting or. “requesting support of worlds. , ~ ™, ‘ C ‘se Ye, peace. Address them to Senator Tom Sonnalty, President Eisenhower, Paul Robesol ! 40 , John Gates (publisher of the New York Dail ly Vorkar), end Howard Fast. You may at | a “ ae “-" address Robeson and Fast care of Masses a and Mainstream, 832 Broadway, New York, Ue F Ss N.Y., of which magazine they are contributing editors". [___Joent on to say "I know that merely as my wife a more then sufficient body of material will Present itself. Express your doubts. of the so-called ‘benefits! of the Korean war. Think of how the Korean people are , being systematically destroyed, Think of your yt pa personal suffering in an international Light, as the suffering of all the wives of 4 oe in Korea, Tndonesia y/ Malaya, ete. bn remember who is behind it all. Think * te ; f ne Sh nd write from the viewpoint of the working class, ‘and I am sure that you will IN INDEXED-14 fo. Aro 6 dG, - UG, 7 jbring this project to a: successful conclusion es * as Possible." In gto S (pis retter[__Jmesentea a rather sordi picture of what, the world might be | me i SO -jlike in the event of another world vary, \ fee - 28 eve , 442 rhe On 17 May 53, Cp wera 9, Pere Jones Army Hospital, Battle Creek, Mich., wrote to ves [Jin « answer to questions ‘she had asked about her husband. Le “Pow returne amotea ae en r knev. | him [ for some time but I nets “6 py, ob or: ballalts ainda ae ATED 9/2 hide mf he attains a much higher aad ats yore: eH Pa HW 45907 DBocld:32324515 Page 2?
intellectual plane than I do and he doesn't. come down to earth much. So because of that I cannot tell you hardly how he has adapted himself of course, I believe to be only fair I should not say anything that he might not want to have said." [Jeentsonea ee Cal," with es been composing ‘music when nef was not "playing cards and reading." According to [__]retter, Mes.[_____}has received ‘about 6 letters from her husband, which [ otissaarea about average. The hospitalized POW returnee added : in closing, Ne, for him writing articles, I could not say about that. But I'm sure if he wrote oan: they were of his own free will". (RO Dallas) ; (B-2) (Fourth heny) (2.09 Comm ent: (Confidential) It appears tha{ may have been subjectéd to an intensive Communist indoctrination program as a POW. As his letter contains elements of the CP line, it is possible he may have fallen victim to the Indoctrination program. It is also possible that [__ J may have found it expedient to cooperate with the Chinese authorities while not actually believing in their principles. Whatever the case, The Ebinese People's Committee for World Pease is probably using __| for "propaganda purposes.[ | Vege), tere all well known American CP members. The Daily Worker is the official organ of the American CP and the Masses and Mainstream (now the New Masses) has been cited by the House Un-Américan Activities Committee as a CP front publication. (B~2) pe . Ps | oy CO ot T eqanio® . ~ HW 45907 DBocld:32324515 Page 3