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help Bella. So they said, “This is not our position,” but they wouldn't say what their position was. Their position is anti-thetical to Israel. I've never yet met a Women's Strike for Peace person, a militant, who didn't tell me how they were against jets to Israel or arms for Israel. They're just part of that crowd. They'd like to conceal it in a public way. But that is their position if you probe. So they sent out this letter saying that Ruth Gage-Colby had never had the right to issue this statement for them.

So I then sent the letter to Ruth Gage-Colby saying, “I have this letter. They say you never had the right to do this. Why did you do it? Or are they wrong?” And she didn't answer that. And I said, “Please give me the names of those who voted for the position that was taken by the executive board,” because that's how she signed it. She hasn't answered that letter.

So then I put the whole correspondence, a rather lengthy correspondence with all these groups, in the Record. It was entitled: “Where is Ruth Gage-Colby? And why are they saying all those terrible things about her?” It was a terrific thing. And I sent that out. I just kept it going. And Bella is just absolutely furious. And I have never to this day heard from Ruth Gage-Colby. I think they have her locked up in a room somewhere.

Then the Women's Strike for Peace issues its Bulletin, and the Bulletin says, “Write to Edward Koch and denounce him for his unfair attacks on our Bella. And he published a letter from