On a languid afternoon last week, only a few Muscovites were out on Red Square strolling or feeding the pigeons. Then the peace was shattered as a small crowd bustled into the square shouting "Peace and friendship" in foreign-accented Russian. They bore a poster identifying them as "American-European March San Francisco-Moscow" and pressed handbills onto startled bystanders. The peace marchers from the U.S. had hit town.
The march began last December in San
Francisco when ten U.S. pacifists (later joined by 20 others in Europe) set out on foot for Russia. They were sponsored by the Committee for Nonviolent Action, which...
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