Powell

The three defendants are charged in a thirteen-count indictment with engaging in seditious activities intended to adversely affect the armed forces of the United States while the United States was at war in Korea from July 7, 1950 until July 27, 1953.

During the entire period of the Korean War and for several years prior thereto, the defendant John Powell was the owner and editor and the defendants Sylvia Powell and Julian Schuman were staff members of a magazine published in Shanghai, China and known as the Chinese Monthly Review. Count one of the indictment charges the three defendants with conspiring to circulate in the United States through the media of the Chinese Monthly Review false statements and reports intended to interfere with the success of the United States forces in Korea, to cause insubordination and disloyalty among the United States troops, and to obstruct recruitment. Each of counts two through eleven charges the defendant John Powell with circulating in the United States by publication in Chinese Monthly Review false statements intended to interfere with the success of the United States armed forces. Counts twelve and thirteen charge the defendant John Powell…