attack on L Pauling and 1960 peace movement...some history

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http://radfilms.com/pauling_interviews.html

FIVE INTERVIEWS WITH LINUS PAULING:
During the autumn of 1960 Dr. Pauling was interviewed: first by telephone by Virginia Mill, and then at Cal Tech by Mill & Robert Carl Cohen. Predictably, within the context of Cold War editorial attitudes which considered all viewpoints labeled "sympathetic to Communism" as unprintable, the interviews were rejected by mainstream publications in both the United States & Canada. The most "sympathetic" rejection was by the TORONTO STAR:

(photocopy of letter)

Despite the "...too many holes in Pauling's argument..." publications in Germany, India, & the USSR did print various length excerpts. Copies of their articles & the original texts are in the Cal Tech Millikan Library Archives. Dr. Pauling's appeals for accords limiting nuclear weapons stockpiles & delivery systems contributed to the eventual enactment of the Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Test Ban, SALT, ABM & other similar accords. Presented here, edited only for clarity, is the complete set of five interviews:

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from 2nd interview

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I answered every question that they asked. They asked very few questions relating to Communism at all, and no questions relating to Communists connected with the bomb test ban movement, or my Petition to the UN. Yet the report of this Sub-Committee is going to be printed by the Government Printing Office with the heading of "Communist Infiltration and Use of Pressure Groups." To come under this heading is an injustice to me.
There are other ways, too. I was asked by Senator Cotton:
"You have said that you won't give us the names of the people who helped gather signatures. Do you know Dr. Willard Uphaus?" I said "Yes, I do." Well, that's all that he needed to say. I know that Dr. Willard Uphaus is in jail on a twelve month sentence. He's 69 years old, perhaps older than that, perhaps 79 years old. He is in jail because he refused to give an investigating committee the names of some people.

MILL: Is he a scientist?

PAULING: He's a Christian Pacifist, a graduate of Yale Divinity School and a lay preacher in the Methodist Church. He runs what he calls "The World Fellowship of Faith," a summer camp in New Hampshire.
He was asked to give the names of all the people who came to his summer camp. He refused, and was sentenced to jail for an indefinite period until he produced the names. This was unconstitutional, however, so it had to be changed to a 12 month sentence. So, you see, by being asked if I knew him, I was being threatened.
Not only that, the newspapers reported Senator Dodd indicated that if I didn't conform to the order to bring the list of names of people who returned the signatures to me, I would be cited for contempt of Congress and probably get a jail sentence.

COHEN: Do you think this is possible?

PAULING: Surely, it is possible. Dr. Willard Uphaus is in jail. There are other professors and scientists who are in jail for having used the First Amendment to the Constitution, which protects freedom of speech. If you invoke the Fifth Amendment instead, you don't get sent to jail, you just lose your job.

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