E. P. Thompson has written about how the causes of “peace” and “freedom” seemed to break apart after World War II. The Soviet Union promoted peace, and the United States promoted freedom. Thompson argues persuasively that both claims contained a grain of truth along with a fair amount of hypocrisy. The peace offensive launched by the Soviet Union in the late 1940s met with positive responses from people all over the world who yearned for peace. In the United States, such people, whether Communist or not, became suspect as dupes of the Kremlin. The roots of the postwar association of peace with Communist subversion in the United States can be traced to the negative responses of various individuals and groups to the Communist peace offensive. This association persisted for many years, causing much damage to the peace movement and the cause of peace. Although dissidents in the Soviet Union were treated far more harshly than were peace activists in the United States, this does not detract from the significance of attempts by many Americans to curb the freedoms of those who worked fo