Evening star., 1949-03-28
Cultural Conference
Ends With Praise for
Soviet Peace Aims
BY the Associated Press


NEW YORK, Mar. 28.-With a
promise to continue its work ir
the future and with a salvo OF
praise for Soviet peace" aims, the
controversial world peace" con-
ference has ended.
The three-day- meeting of the
Cultural and Scientific Conference
for World Peace closed last night
About 1900 persons jammed
Madison Square Garden to cheer
its last sessIon-but other thou
sands picketed and jeered outside
Speakers at the session, called
Unite for World Peace" rally
struck a general note of praise
for Soviet peace" aspirations
asserting that leaders of the U. S
S. r. are anti-war and anxious fo1
slobal peace.
Pickets Mill About.
Outside the garden, police
3. estimated crowd of 1000 pickets
milled about as the rally opened
They carried placards assailing
the conference and chanted slo-
gans charging it was Communist
dominated.
The State Department had de-
scribed the affair as a sounding
board for Communist propaganda.
Sponsors of the meeting. the Ma
tional Council of the Arts, Sciences
and Professions, have denied the
charge.
Counter rallies and anti-Con. J.
munist protest groups denounced
the conference, and almost con-
slant picketing went on while it
held its sessions at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel, Carnegie Hall and
the Garden.
Adopted Many Resolutions.
AS the affair ended, delegates
stamped approval on resolutions
that call for strengthening the
United Nations. cooperating with
peace movements throughout the
world and bringing to the atten-
ton of United States govern
mental agencies the decisions of
the conferees.
A special action committee was
set up to consider specific recon-
mendations to carry out the reso-
1utions. DR.. Allen M. Butler, of
the Harvard Medical School, a
member of this group, said it
would meet today.
A. A. Fadeyev, chief Russian
delegate and noted Soviet author,
won loud applause from the Car
den's capacity audience last night
with an assertion that 'our coun-
try, the Soviet Union, stands for
peace and friendship among peo-
pies, because we are first and
foremost state of plain people"
Theme Is Echoed.
Other speakers echoed his theme.
Domingo Villamil, a Cuban
scholar who said he is a Roman
Catholic Communist, denounced
those who he claimed ARE encircl-
ing the Soviet Union and Matching
q third world war"
A Czechoslovakian delegate, Jiri
Hronek, head of that nations
mass communications division,
said Czechoslovakians "love the
Soviet Union, which they regard
IS a guarantor Of peace. progress
and national ffidependence......s.ss.
While 'the~conference was~erd-
ing its work. rival group, the
League for Free Russia held a
counter-rally and adopted a re-
solution condemning the peace
meeting.
About 700 persons met at City
Center Casino and adopted a reso-
tuition which said Soviet delegates
to the sessions have no right to
speak in the name of science and
culture since they are agents OF.
states where unheard-of suppress
sion and violation of the freedom
OF the sciences, the arts and all
cultural values are being carried
on"
Coalition of Exiles.
The league, which said it is a
coalition of various Russian exile
groups in America, also assailed
delegates from free countries who,
for reasons best known to them
selves, have joined the chorus of
totalitarian slaves"
The Russian league was the sec
ond group to hold a countermeet-
ing IN protest against the Cultural
and Scientific Peace Conference.
On Saturday Americans for In
tellectual Freedom sponsored a
protest rally before an overflow
crowd at Freedom House.
Police reported last night that
three persons were charged with
disorderly conduct during the
Madison Square Garden rally.
Scuffle With Photographer.
Two were spectators at the
meeting who allegedly scuffed
with a newsreel photographer try
ing to take closeup shots of the
crowd. They were identified as
DR.. Marx Strauss, 80, of Brooklyn,
and Irving Wagner, 40, a furrier.
The third arrested person, police
said, was Hnap Marchak. of
Brooklyn, who allegedly stepped
out of a picket line outside the
Garden and struck a passerby.
Two other newsreel photograph
ers were involved in brief scuff1es
as they attempted to take similar
shots. One cameraman said per-
sons in the crowd told him they
would lose their jobs if they were
photographed.
BoOs and Kisses.
During the rally, names of op-
ponents of the conference were
booed and hissed repeatedly, as
was the name of Josef Cardinal
Mindszenty, primate of Hungary
who was convicted of treason and
other charges by the communist