Lysistratas of the Bomb

The House Committee on Un-American Activities made its point in a tumultuous three-day investigation into a militant women’s peace organization. This was that WSP, which is the abbreviation with a built-in hiss for Mrs. Dagmar Wilson’s Women Strike for Peace movement, has been infiltrated by Communists. Whether the non-Communist leaders of the movement recognize this is less clear; certainly at the hearings it appeared that they couldn’t care less.

The New York branch of WSP, which HUAC believes to be the controlling group, had at least five members who took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment when questioned on past or present affiliations with the Communist Party. But Mrs. Wilson claims the New York branch does not control the movement. “Nobody,” she said firmly, “is controlled by anybody in the WSP.”

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Irene Corbally Kuhn

The House Committee on Un-American Activities made its point in a tumultuous three-day investigation into a militant women’s peace organization. This was that WSP, which is the abbreviation with a built-in hiss for Mrs. Dagmar Wilson’s Women Strike for Peace movement, has been infiltrated by Communists. Whether the non-Communist leaders of the movement recognize this is less clear; certainly at the hearings it appeared that they couldn’t care less.

The New York branch of WSP, which HUAC believes to be the controlling group, had at least five members who took refuge behind the Fifth Amendment when questioned on past or present affiliations with the Communist Party. But Mrs. Wilson claims the New York branch does not control the movement. “Nobody,” she said firmly, “is controlled by anybody in the WSP.”