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PH 100=360)5 | a = bz,L2D paler eo | In the fall of 1950, ¥ which conducts security an liigence investigatZons, informed that . on August 2, 1950, PEARL S. BUCK, Mre,. RI ALSH)R. D. #3, Perkasie, -. . Pa., had addressed a personal letter to leading perso and groups in ... Washington, D. C., urging them to break the racial segregation pattern ~ aa in Washington, D. C., by declaring that they will not follow it. .if this were done, BUCK eonjectured that it would make the best possible propaganda and add reality to the Voice ef America end the President's civil rights ; program. She argued that with the people of Asia particularly, words ~~. - without action are meaningless and that such an act would persuade them = - that "Democracy, our way of life, has reality for them as well as for us." .. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, a daily newspaper, on February 16, 1951, set forth a news item that PEARL BUCK, speaking en February 15, 1951 before the Kiwanis Club at Atlantic City, N. J., had voiced the opinien that «ss universal military training can turn the United States into a welfare state, - gtating: “and the welfare state can come more quickly under militarism — * than from any other system except Communism." ‘he expressed the fear that — we might get something in universal military training which will "keep us ‘all paying and pensioning and pensioning. Communism is our first danger, , but militarism is the next." The item continued with the expression of. opinion\ by ¥isa BUCK that the Korean War was the cause of a great split . between MAO} SEUNG ‘LINLISAN, the two Jeaders of the Chinese Communist Gove > o‘is a + but also a Chinese, while LISAN, although @ Chinese and a Communist, is dominated by the Kremlin." She said, "MAO pever wanted to send Chinese Red forces into Korea, but LISAN did and” — because of his tie-up with STALIN is stronger at the moment." yO, “A. - The Temple University News , Philadelphia, issue of February 12, 1951, ‘, ‘Page 1, Column 1, indicated that PEARL BUCK, epeaking at the annual Reading Institute Banquet in Mitten Hall Auditorium on the campus on February 1, 1951, said that the current trend in militarism has given the younger ~ generation a sense of futility. She stated that it does soacthing to a young man's mentality when he begins to wonder if he will ever grow up. fhe article then quoted Miss BUCK as follows: "If militeriem gets hold of our society in our transitional stage, we're caught. Our society is too _ exploratory, too much in a state of flux to accept military domination. The Chinese have had 4,000 years of history. We haven't, They can take a dictatorship, We can't. If we accept militarism, we mst expect bewilder- ing changes in our way of life." ‘The item continued that Miss BUCK then os launched an attack en “proud and brave gold-star mothers" with the declara- ° fon that the willingness of mothers to send their sons to war “is one of . the most destructive forces in society." . - ee rer con uENTIAL