Elias Picheny
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Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace
Elias Picheny was a sponsor of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace which ran from March 25 - 27, 1949 in New York City. It was arranged by a Communist Party USA front organization known as the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions. The conference was a follow-up to a similar gathering, the strongly anti-America, pro-Soviet World Congress of Intellectuals which was held in Poland, August 25 - 28, 1948.[1]
Chicago Area Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy
As at November 1965, Eli Picheny was listed as serving on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Area Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.[2]
Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights
In November 1967, Elias Picheny signed a Chicago Committee to Defend the Bill of Rights advertisement in the Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices opposing efforts by Senator Dirksen to re-institute the McCarran Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950.[3]
References
- ↑ Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace by the Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., April 19, 1949
- ↑ SANE letter to members, November 1965
- ↑ Hyde Park-Kenwood Voices, Nov. 1967