REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL CONFERENCE

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The Literary Gazette, appearing in Moscow in the latter part of March 1949, carried an article by Boris Lavrenev, the playwright, called the participants in the conference the "real leaders of America." He described the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel gathering as meeting—

in the living gloomy jungles of Wall Street where the sinister plans of a new world war are being nurtured.

He predicted that the Congress would—

lay the foundation for the creation of an active and effective front for peace and struggle against the groups of frenzied cannibals who dream of throwing the planet into the nightmare inferno of general war and extracting superprofits from the rivers of blood.

He told his Moscow readers that the "dungeons of the anti-American committee" are filling up with opponents of the North Atlantic Pact.

On April 1, 1949, Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet publicist and novelist, hailed the "Congress of the American Intellectuals in Defense of Peace" as the voice of "truly progressive, noble America." Yet 1 week later his two early novels were castigated in the magazine, October, official organ of the Soviet Writers Union, on the ground that his characters were not motivated by Communist conscience. In other words the most stalwart guardians of Soviet cultural purity are not immune from unexpected blows of the party's literary ax.

On April 2, 1949, Soviet commentator Vladimirov announced that—

At this Congress the voice of progressive intelligentsia made itself heard against the ruling circles of the United States—

adding that—

The Congress is a serious warning to the provokers and instigators of a new war—they will not be supported by the masses.

But Comrade Vladimirov made it plain that this movement would not confine itself merely to speeches and the adoption of resolutions.

The masses—

he declared—

do not confine themselves to the moral support of the promoters of peace; they wage a daily and active fight against the instigators of war.

By way of example he cited:

The statement by Sharkey, leader of the Australian Communist Party, that the Australian workers * * * fully support the Soviet Union in case an imperialist war being launched against it, caused approval among the workers of Australia.

More specifically he pointed out that—

A wave of strikes broke over the entire country in protest against those who persecute the upholders of peace * * * against those who help the instigators of war. At the same time a strike occurred in the opposite part of the world in the Belgian town of Antwerp, where the dockers ceased work in protest against the North Atlantic Pact.

## COMMUNIST AFFILIATIONS OF SPONSORS

A tabulation of the numerous Communist-front affiliations of the sponsors of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace shows the following interesting figures:

One, Rockwell Kent, has been affiliated with at least 85 Communist-front organizations.

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*Three*, Langston Hughes, Robert Morss Lovett, and Donald Ogden Stewart, have been affiliated with from 71 to 80 Communist-front organizations.

*Four*, Paul Robeson, Mary Van Kleeck, James Waterman Wise, and Harry F. Ward, have been affiliated with from 51 to 60 Communist-front organizations.

*Eight* have been affiliated with from 41 to 50 Communist-front organizations. These include—

Jerome Davis
William Gropper
Dashiell Hammett

Corliss Lamont
John Howard Lawson
Carey McWilliams

Walter Rautenstrauch
Margaret Schlauch

*Ten* have been affiliated with from 31 to 40 Communist-front organization, and include—

Louis Adamic
Edwin Berry Burgum
Jerome Davis
Muriel Draper

Henry Pratt Fairchild
Lillian Hellman
Albert Maltz

Clifford Odets
Herman Shumlin
Bernard J. Stern

*Twenty-eight* have been affiliated with from 21 to 30 Communist-front organizations, and include—

Thomas Addis
Marc Blitzstein
Millen Brand
Aaron Copland
Kyle Crichton
Pearl M. Hart
John A. Kingsbury
Alfred Kreymborg
Joshua Kunitz
Kenneth Leslie

Robert S. Lynd
Louis F. McCabe
Jack R. McMichael
Clyde R. Miller
Henry A. Murray
Dorothy Parker
Bertha C. Reynolds
Frederick L. Shuman
Edwin Seaver

Guy Emery Shipler
Raphael Soyer
Alfred K. Stern
Paul Strand
Dirk J. Struik
Eda Lou Walton
Colston E. Warne
Max Weber
Ella Winter

*Forty-nine* have been affiliated with from 11 to 20 Communist-front organizations, and include—

Zlatko Balokovic
S. L. M. Barlow
Edward K. Barsky
Herbert J. Biberman
Algernon D. Black
Ernest P. Boas
Dorothy Brewster
Henrietta Buckmaster
Morris Carnovsky
Adolf Dehn
Albert Deutsch
Earl B. Dickerson
Martha Dodd
Dorothy W. Douglas
W. E. B. DuBois
Albert Einstein
Guy Endore

Philip Evergood
Lion Feuchtwanger
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Minna Harkavy
Marion Hathway
Leo Huberman
Leo T. Hurwitz
Matthew Josephson
Robert Josephy
Robert W. Kenny
Oliver Larkin
John Howland Lathrop
Emil Lengyel
Donald G. Lothrop
Harry L. Lurie
Thomas Mann

F. O. Matthiessen
Wayne McMillen
Gardner Murphy
Scott Nearing
John P. Peters
Arthur Upham Pope
Anton Refregier
Wallingford Riegger
Harold Rome
Muriel Rukeyser
Howard Selsam
Harlow Shapley
Johannes Steel
I. F. Stone
Oswald Veblen
J. Raymond Walsh

*Two hundred and seventy* have been affiliated with from 1 to 10 Communist-front organizations, and include—

Berenice Abbott
Charles B. Ackley
Charles C. Adams
Stella Adler
Cecilia Ager
Gregory Ain
George Anthiel
Robenia Anthony

Herbert Aptheker
James Aronson
Edith Atwater
Alice P. Barrows
Mordecai Bauman
Howard Bay
Thomas Bell
Aline Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein
Victor Bernstein
Walter Bernstein
Michael Blankfort
E. M. Bluestone
Henry Blumberg
Aaron Bohrod
B. A. Botkin

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Richard O. Boyer
Kay Boyle
Theodore Brameld
Marlon Brando
J. Edward Bromberg
Thoburn T. Brumbaugh
Paul Burlin
David Buriuk
E. A. Burtt
Adolph Buseh
Allan M. Butler
Angus Cameron
Antoinette Cannon
George D. Cannon
Jonah E. Caplan
Anton J. Carlson
Saul Carson
Norman Casden
Robert C. Challman
Allan Chase

M. N. Chatterjee
Serge Chermayeff
Edward Chodorov
Jerome Chodorov
Henry S. Churchill
Nicolai Cikovsky
Rufus E. Clement
Robert M. Coates
Lee J. Cobb
J. X. Cohen
Lester Cole
Fannie Cook
Norman Corwin
Thomas Creighton
John W. Darr, Jr.
Howard Da Silva
Jules Dassin

Leo M. Davidoff
Jo Davidson
John Herbert Davis
John De Boer
Albert C. Dieffenbach
Hedley S. Dimock
Anton Dolin
Harl R. Douglass
Olin Downes
Paul Draper
Jane Dudley
James Dugan
Barrows Dunham
Arnaud D'Usseau
Stuart Edie
Irwin Edman
Robert H. Ellis
Haven Emerson
Thomas I. Emerson
Lehman Engel
Howard Fast

Jose Ferrer
Robert D. Field
Sidney Finkelstein
Irving Flamm
Joseph Fletcher
Clark Foreman
Elizabeth Frazier
Joseph Gaer

Arthur Gaeth
Will Geer
Barbara Giles
Josiah W. Gitt
Vincent Glinsky
Max Goberman
Robert Gordis
Henrietta L. Gordon
Jay Gorney
Harry Gottlieb
Morton Gould
James Gow
Charles Graham
Shirley Graham
Chaim Gross
Sidonie Gruenberg
Ernest A. Grunsfeld
Jack Guilford
Robert Gwathmey
Uta Hagen
Margaret Halsey
Talbot Hamlin
E. Y. Harburg
Georgia Harkness
Ray E. Harris
Shelby M. Harrison
Frank Hartung
Elder G. Hawkins
Michael Heidelberger
Edna Wolff Henner
Stefan Heym
Ernest R. Hilgard
Charles A. Hill
Joseph Hirsch
Ira A. Hirschmann
Chester E. Hodgson
Syd Hoff
Judy Holliday
Carroll Hollister
Libby Holman
Eugene C. Holmes
Lee Elbert Holt
Charles P. Howard
Kenneth De P. Hughes
W. Alpheus Hunton
Crockett Johnson
Edna Ruth Johnson
David Jones
Robert Joyce
Albert E. Kahn
Garson Kanin
Heyward Keniston
Stetson Kennedy
Alexander Kipnis
Philip Klein
George Kleinsinger
Howard Koch
Isaac M. Kolthoff
Pauline Koner
Leon Kroll
Harry C. Lamberton
Millard Lampell
Ring Lardner, Jr.
Sidney Laufman
Jacob Lawrence
James Lechay

Ray Lev
Julian Levi
Joseph H. Levy
Jose Limon
Jacob Little
Alice Liveright
Alan Lomax
Joseph Losey
Oliver S. Loud
Helen M. Lynd
Curtis D. MacDougall
A. B. Magil
Norman Mailer
Erika Mann
Grace F. Marcus
F. L. Marcuse
John Martin
Sophie Maslow
Albert Mayer
Elizabeth McCausland
John T. McManus
Eve Merriam
Otto Meyerhof
Arthur Miller
Benjamin F. Miller
Bucklin Moon
Sam Moore
Philip Morrison
Jacob Moscowitz
Willard Motley
Arthur W. Moulton
Michael M. Nisselson
Elizabeth Olds
John O'Shaughnessy
George L. Paine
Aubrey Pankey
Clarence Parker
Linus Pauling
I. Rice Pereira
Jennings Perry
Helen W. Phillips
Melber Phillips
Isidore Pomerance
Abraham Pomerantz
Callman Rawley
Ira De A. Reid
Ad Reinhardt
Holland Roberts
O. John Rogge
Theodor Rosebury
Jonas Rosenfield, Jr.
Norman Rosten
Rose Russell
Robert St. John
Victor Samrock
Alexander Saxton
Bela Schick
Artur Schnabel
Budd Schulberg
Ben Shahn
Wesley Sharer
Artie Shaw
Eva Sikelianos
Samuel Sillen
Lee Simonson
Mitchell Siporin