Evening star., 1951-02-09
Peace Center
is Indicted. for
Not Registering
5Officers Of New York
Sponsor of Stockholm
Appeal Are Cited

The Peace Information Center
in New York and five of its off,
GERS were indicted by a Federal
grand jury here today on charges
OF failing to register with the
Justice Department under the
terms of the Foreign Agents Reg
istration Act.
The Peace Information Center,
with headquarters at 799 Broad
way, New York, is accused in the
indictment of acting as a pub
iicity agent for the Committee Of
the World Congress of the De-
tenders of Peace. The latter or
ganization was described by the
Justice Department as an inter-
national organization established
by the Cominform to publicize
the So-called Stockholm peace
petition.
Principal among the five officers
OF the Peace Information Center
indicted was DR.. w. E. B. Du Bois,
Negro educator and author, who
is listed as chairman of the COM
mittee. Others named in the in
dictment are Kyrle Elkin, Mrs.
Elizabeth Moos. Abbott Simon
and Sylvia Soloff. described as
secretary of the committee.
Related to Remington.
Mrs. MooS was described by a
spokesman for the Justice Depart
n1ent as the former mother-in.
law of William w. Remington,
sentenced yesterday in New York
for perjury in denying that he had
ever been member of the Com
munist Party.
The Peace Information Center.
according to the Justice Depart
ment, was created to publicize the
Stockholm Appeal in the United
States, described by Secretary of
State Acheson as "a propaganda
trick in the spurious peace Of
fensive of the Soviet Union"
Recently, in tracing the Stock
holm Appeal to the Communist
controlled Partisans of Peace,
Secretary Acheson described it as
having the two-fold purpose Of
promoting the unenforceable So
Wet proposals concerning atomic
energy and in centering attention
on the use Of atomic weapons, and
ignoring the aggression in other
forms now being practiced by the
Communists.
1 Specific Charge Listed.
The indictment charges that
continuously during the period
from April 3, 1850, to and in
cluding the date of the return of
this indictment, Peace Informa-
ton Center has been an agent
OF a foreign principal, because
within the United States ID it
has acted as and has held itself
out to be publicity agent for:
Cd it has reported information
to, and go it. has acted at the
request of the Committee of the
World Congress of the Defenders
of Peace. and it's successor, the
World Peace Council"
The indictment charges the
Peace Information Center. with
having "unlaWfully and wilfully"
failed to register as a foreign
agent.
Failure to register is punishable
by fine up to $4,000 and five
years imprisonment.
ALI Except One Now in u. S.
The Justice Department said all
of the defendants are now in this
country except Mrs. Moos. The
department said she went abroad
some time ago to attend Com
munist peace conference" in
Warsaw and has not yet returned.
Remington, one-time $4,000 a
year Government economist was
sentenced to five years in prison
yesterday. His former wife, the
former Ann Moos, testified against
him during his trial.
Today's indictment was re-
turned before District Court
Judge F. Dickinson Let's.
The case was presented to
the grand jury by Special Assis-
tants to the Attorney General
Nathan B. Lenvin and Frank w.
SchattSchneider, and Assistant
United States Attorney Harold
II. Bacon.