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Folie ie wets * Ae RRS eo St Ly bets ot bee wt ele Bs rae ey whe nro eA Sag rt f f Mal Ht \ H | p A MONTHLY MAGAZINE | Mr. Re: PUBLISHED BY THE+FELLOWSHIP OF RECONCILIA nts NYACK. KEW TORK ° ALFRED HASSLER WILLIAM ROBERT MILLER, - a pion ASST. ERITOR March 21, 1957 V4 Senator John MoClellian, Chairman Internal Security Comittee | Senate Office Building . 7 _ Washington, De Ga Dear Senators There have come to ny attention newspaper reports of the testimony given before your committes recently by J. Edgar Hoover, dealing with the presence of scp non-Commnist"observers” at the recent national convention of the Commniet Party of the United States. As ons of those who attended the convention in that oaproity I want to register a strong protest to some of Mr. Hoover's assertions, and to > express the hope that you will eorrect the record at important points. To begin with, I protest the use of the expression “hand-picked” as it 4e applied to the observers. The implication that the Conmnist Party or its leaders selected us is totally false, as is the parallel sugrestion that we wers chosen as ones who would be partial toward the Party. The fact is timt individuals were invited, or organizations asked to name representatives, precisely on the grounds of their anti-totalitarien, non-Communist records, oombined with a concern for the preservation of oivil liberties. wt. Secondly, Mr. Hoover errs grievously in referring to A. Juste as one “who has long fronted for Communists." I have been a member of the staff of the Fellowship of Reconoiliatian for fifteen years. During most of that. = tine Hr. Miste was the exeoutive secretary of the organisation, while for ‘ie past three years be has been secretary exeritus. The anti-totalitarien position of the Fellowship has been a matter of record for the forty-two years of its. existence, and was never more clearly in evidence then during the years of ir. Muste's tenure. the’ Fellowship haa been at pains to reject all proposals for wnited- front activities with the Commnists; it has been as firm in rejooting ‘eace mi litariem and tyranny of the Soviet Union as it has been in,rs militarism in our own country; and it has mie a point frequently of cautioning both ite members. and Vhe public againat being deceived by rs 4 the | soon. f APSF = « psy ‘ WECORDEDAS meaberiarss naan {7 — NDERED 725 te APR’ 2 1987 seme NN 700-1086 9-S