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It was necessary to prevent another act of a military folly from happening and I joined my voice to the 600 ame rican leaders of art and acience who gathered in New Guer,e& os March 1949, at a Peace Congress, The entire world was tn solidarity with this congress and the Soviet Union in particular, which sent in (its) outstanding leaders Paw nant tn tama st in for participating in 7%. This congress was subjected to attacks, some of the most disgusting attacks against ctutlization known in the modern wertd, Tt was abused and reviled. Some of the outstanding leadere became victims of insults and the majority of them had to retreat. The results were sad. However, when in the same year, 1949, Peace Congress was convened in Paris, I hastened to take part in it. This was the greatest gathering reflecting the spiritual enthusiasm of mankind. My hopes grew and, when in the end of 1949, the Soviet Unton tnutted 25 Americans to come to Moscow and to take part in the work of the All-Union Conference in Defense of Peace, I accepted this offer. Thus, I saw your country for the third time. I remember how I told the Soviet people about sincere striving for peace in America, From hopes and doubts of 1926, through the presentiments of 7936 I came tin 1319029 to a belie? into the ele feu Fe te te See | ee id wee Foy ie view ultimate triumph of communism not only in Russia but throughout the world. The face of almost every man met by me in the Soviet Union radiated hope. American authorities started legal proceedings aoainst me for my struggle in favor of peace. After I returned home, they brought the formal charges against me and only the protest of the ciuviltzed world saved me from prison, However, in the course of the nert 7 years, I was Ceprivec if tie right to leave the country. When, in 1958, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that our Popuiwecwy, vy obucle “as no legal right to deprive citizens of foreign passports, I and my wife, SHIRLEY GRAHAM, immediately took advantage of this. -5-