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-Viclent Action, th Vertcli Divisien, Eseing Corporevion, Merton, Pennsylvania, . , December 29, 1955 during World War II to four years as a Conscientious Opjector. The "New York Evening Journal" issue of April 28, 1942, contains an article entitled "Ex-Red Won't Register." The article relates that the Reverend A. J, MUSTE, Presbyterian Minister ané Executive Secretary of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), had refused to register under the Selective Service Act. In the article MUSTE is described as a former leader of the Trotskyite faction of the Communist movement in this country. ‘The article also relates that MUSTE was arrested in Illinois in 1934, charged with plotting to overthrow the government, but he was later released. The April 14, 1957, issue of “The Worker,” page 16, column 1, described A. J. MUSTE as the Dean of "So- cialist Pacifists" and Secretary Emeritus of the POR. In August 1964, a source described A. J. MUSTE as National Chairman of the Committee on Non-Violent Action, 325 Lafayette Street, New York, N. Y, -4e