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* Ger and Averican waity.* Other Wodel prise winners who spoke vere? sir Yornan Angell, Sigrid Undset, Arthur H. Compton, Harold 6. Urey, Otte Leewi, and Thomas Ham. The gathering was held at the Valdorf-Astoria om Decender 10, 1942, and Miss Buck, in her speech, stated in part that the war "has ceased to be a fight for freecon,*® and is mow not even a war to gave civilization but only a war to save & Baropean civilization...fhe ani nt with us. Allies ve are, to a certain guarded degrees for a monext, i. for a while, tat they cannot trust us. hey seo that while this first : stage of the war must be wor against the Axis, there vill ve another var, e7 following hard uperz this one, @ greater war, a real war for freedom, in which es wone yet sees clearly either friend or foe. It is mot now so certain what ei, this war will gain us. Perhaps it will aot even save civilisation for us. y For it is in wars that civilizations are lost, if they go on too long.® | ha San Francisco Office stvised in Septender, 1945, Shat the pee Communist Party in that city wes considering the sdévisability of staging @ *Freedon Rally® similar to the mass Hegro rallies that were then deing a Gerough the modinu of a technical surveillance ca the Festus Coleman Defense Comuittee, a Begro Commmist group im Sen Francisco, it was reported that the mame of Pearl Back was menti possible speaker at soch a rally. It was stated, : pate too highly with the Communist Party decanse the movie "Mission to Woscov.* be 6.” ge Writers! Var Board was formed in Decesber, 1941, by # group ef meanders of the duthors League of America, Inc., to ] of America could _.* ! wbigh mesbers of the Authors aid in the war effort. Sach menbders a8 1 8. Buck, Clifton Fadinan, tim Reynolds, Louis Adaric, Louis Brosfieléd, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Gari Van Doren, api Clifford Odete are faniliar in this regard. It is _Significant to mote that the name of Langston Hughes appears vith the sseory tone. i ge conan GA- tal 435-7