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records of that organization. Soon thereafter five officers of
the Peace Information Center were indicted as "foreign agents."
SYLVIA SOLOPF received a $10,000 fine and five years in jail.
She said that another man of the proup, a war veteran who had
been on the staff of General MAC ARTHUR and who had seen Hiro-
shima and Nagasaki, said, "We mist work against the atomic bomb,"
He also received five years in jail and a $10,000 fine. Miss
GRAHAM referred to General MAC ARTHUR as "that mad man from
Tokyo." She said that the treasurer of the group was a busi-
nessman with offices in New York, London and Paris. He was
sentenced to five years in jail. He said, "If this can happen
to me, it can happen to TAFT." She said that another cultured
New England woman who had taught in an exclusive New England
school had been in Czechoslovekia studying conditions, and upon
her return to the United States, she was captured at the airport
on Long Island by the F.B.I.
GRAHAM said that Dr, DU BOIS,who speaks for all people
who ere oppressed, black or white, anid worvers everywiere, has
been called a''dancerous acernt." She said, “He is dancercus to
tyrants who would oppress the people." She said if the Peace
Information Center can be indicted, then ail of us can be
indicted and civilization can be crushed and annihilated,
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Information Center seys that it disseminated in the United States
information about war, atout peace and matters related thereto,
Miss GRAHAM said, “If this is a crime, then everyone in this
room is guilty--every worker for peace."
Miss GRAHAM then described the desolation caused by
war which she had observed in Hamburg, Germany, and Marseilles,
France. “Yar against the people--war against the workers,"
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