Ira Wolfert

Ira Wolfert according to HUAC

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) branded Wolfert a communist by association, listing him among the "sponsors" of the anti-anticommunist Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace held at the Waldorf Hotel (the list was drawn from one authorized by the organizing committee for the event, the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions) [Peace Offensive, p. 107] And in two HUAC reports on the Waldorf Conference, Wolfert was listed - mistakenly, Wolfert later noted - as a "panel speaker," along with W.E.B. DuBois, Howard Fast, Shirley Graham, I.F. Stone, Louis Untermeyer, F.O. Matthiessen, Sam Wanamaker and others (Peace Offensive, p. 110; Review, p. 61).

HUAC also listed Wolfert as "affiliated with from five to ten Communist-front organizations" (Peace Offensive, p. 108), and put him among those suspect because they supported individual communists in various elections, hearings, or trials (Report, p. 40). He is among just twelve writers and artists listed by HUAC as "supported by Soviet Agencies, press or radio" (Report, p. 48)

Sources:

Report on the Communist 'Peace' Offensive - A Campaign to Disarm and Defeat the United States, Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 82nd Congress, House report No. 378, April 1, 1951.

Review of the Scientific and Cultural Conference for World Peace, arranged by the National Council of the Arts, Sciences, and Professions, and held in New York City, March 25, 26, and 27, 1949 (Washington, D.C.: Committee on Un-American Activities, U.S. House of Representatives, 1950 (originally released, April 19, 1949).

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