United States v. Powell

GOODMAN, District Judge.

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…