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r: — re’ CONFI creat progress which hed been made in this country, we hed not advanced in the commonest of ideas. "We in this room ar € the protectors of the culture of America." She said that "squads" were going into book stores and libraries taking books off the shelves, "Writers' are being deprived of making a living and it is up to us to seriously face the problem--unafraid.” she described the Peace Information Center, which had been set up in April of 1950,as a point for the gathering of information regarding peace movements around the world and the dissemination of the same. She told of the peace conference which was started by ASP and held at the Waldorf Hot in New York, She said that it had been started by HARIO HAPLEY and further that some of the best minds in the country were present. Some of the great minds of Europe were prevented from coming to the United States by our State Department, Miss GRABAK said that she went to France to attend tne Paris Peace Conference, She paid her expenses from money received on an advanced payment of her forthcoming book, She paid that every nation, creed, color, and class came to discuss how world peace could be obtained, Ye will not be driven to murcer each other," they seid. She mentioned (PABIO}PICASSO and others who were present. She described them as "workers," Their slogan at the end of the conference, "le shall have peace," She gave a short discussion of the peace conference at Cuba . and was at one held in Mexico City. She said that writers were the "core" of the peace movement. They must give out ent They must give out information. The Peace Information Center sent out postalrerzins all over the country. She said that the Stockholm Peace Appeal had been crawn up in Stockholm by the people of the world. She mentioned that 0. JOHN. ROGGE from the United States had signed the appeal in Stockhoim. She said that the Peace Information Center had obtained several million signatures on the peace appeal. The State Department of the United States then noticed this group, the American Peace Committee, and ordered them to register as foreign agents. "We laughed," she said, They were all volunteer workers with the exception of SYLVIA“SOLOFF (ph. } who worked overtime in the office. They were not ‘receiving money Picu auy foreign sources, only. from poor Americans-~-- working people--who wanted peace. Miss GRAHAM said the Government had decided to close the office of the Peace Information Center and Dr. DU RBCIS asked the Stcte Department for an onrortunity to explain anc show the