Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-03-27


writer's meeting.
"A meeting of this kind could
never be held in the Soviet Union
he told the panel. 1T would be
utterly unthinkable. No sponsor
ing organization could be found
for it."
Il approve of this meeting. 1t
is in the American. democratic
pattern" he added.
Questions Russian Criticism.
Prof. Counts questioned Russian
criticism of American institutions
and called it mot only savage but
untrue"
Shouted protests arose and Prof
Counts was Informed that the
time allotted to each speaker had
expired.
"Okay. that's good democratic
practice" he said and sat down.
DR.. Harlow Shapley. Harvard
astronomer who is chairman of
the conference. said Russia and
the United States ARE so obsesSed
by pointing out each others short
comings that they ignore their
own. Certainly both are at fault. :"
THE generals" he declared,
know civilization will die with
the attempt to win a third world
war"
The counter-rally. sponsored by
the Americans for Intellectual
Freedom and held at Freedom
House. was called by DR.. Sidney
Hook of New York University who
said he was denied permission to
speak at the conference.
Sees Double Menace.
DR.. Bryn j. Hovde. president of
the new School for Social Re-
search. told the rally Nazi Ger
many had crushed intellectual
freedom before the recent war.
But today" he said. ''the
menace is doubly great from a
Communist Party which, where
ever it seizes control. abolishes
all observation-disclosures, scien-
tific. artistic, economic and politi-
cal-first in its own members and
then for everyone"
only those who enslave the
mind and thus direct it are able
to make war. there is no
more ruthless imperialism in the
world today than that of the
Soviet Union"
Besides Mr.. Goss, the Cana
dams taken in custody by federal
agents were Barker Farley of
Toronto, vice president of the
Canadian Council of American
Friendship and his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Farley, member of the
cultural committee of the Cana
dian Labor Progressive Com
munist) Party.
Mrs. Farley left for Canada
during the day. Mr.. Farley was
permitted to stay since he is a
guest professor at Columbia Uni
versity.
Miss Strong Appears. .
Anna Louise Strong, american
neVspaperwoman recently ousted
from Russia as a spy, attended the
conference keynote session and
told ,newsman: II don't think I
can call it (the meeting "a Com
munist front"
To-day I met one of the dele
gates who is a member of a Re-
publican State Committee. An
other delegate is a Progressive, but
more Anti-Soviet than otherwise. !"
She would not name them.
Mr.. Rogge said inshis speech
that Miss Strong to-day sent
81 900 toward the defense of the
leaders of the Communist Party
with this message: To the de-
Tense fund of the IL American
Communists, who are getting the
same raw deal from American
justice as I did from Soviet JUS
tice. From fellow victim of the
cold war"
The American Communist Party
leaders are being tried for con-
spiracy to advocate the forcible
overthrow of the American Gov
eminent.
Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, the
Russian teacher who leaped from
the Soviet consulate here last
August, attended the !. I. F..
counter-rally.
A message attributed to her was
read in English to the meeting.
She attacked Soviet purges
which she said had cost the lives
of thousands of intellectual