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62 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRT tion, the answer to which would be that you had no connection with it at all ? Mr. Jerome. When in my discretion it may lead into an area in which self-incrimination is possible. Mr. Wood. I am glad we are getting ourselves identified. Then you take the position you can refuse to answer any question you wish by hiding behind the fifth amendment? Mr. Jerome. No. Mr. Wood. What do you mean ? Mr. Jerome. The fifth amendment is there to protect me against acting as a witness against myself, and when in my discretion I feel that answering a question put to me represents acting as a witness against myself and involves the question of self-incrimination I invoke that right. Mr. Wood. You have invoked that right here today on a matter that cannot incriminate you, and you have just admitted it, haven't you? Mr. Jerome. I have admitted what? Mr. Wood. As to Hollywood Writers' Mobilization. Mr. Jerome. Is that the name of a publication or an organization ? Mr. Wood. This group has a publication. Mr. Jerome. I said I have never written for that publication and I have no connection with it. Mr. Wood. What is the name of the publication? Mr. Jerome. I don't know, sir. I go by the name you mentioned to me and asked if I wrote for it. Mr. Wood. How about the Hollywood Quarterly ? Mr. Jerome. What is that? Is that connected with that organ- ization ? Mr. Wood. Yes. Mr. Jerome. That is a new question to me? Mr. Wood. Yes. Mr. Jerome. What is the question ? Mr. Wood. Are you familiar with that publication, Hollywood Quarterly? Mr. Jerome. By "familiar" you mean have I ever seen it or read it? Mr. Wood. Yes. Mr. Jerome. I have seen it. Mr. Wood. Have you ever made any literary contribution to it? Mr. Jerome. To that quarterly ? Mr. Wood. Yes. Mr. Jerome. No, sir. Mr. Potter. Mr. Jerome, in answer to Mr. Kearney's question, you said you do not belong to any organization which believes in the over- throw of our Government by force and violence. If the United States should become involved in a war with Russia, would you support the United States or Russia ? Mr. Jerome. I wish to answer that I consider this question no basis for any reply that I can make in the interests of truth and reality. I believe there is no basis in reality for that question. I think it is a suppositious, hypothetical, and provocative question that could only serve to promote war. Mr. Kearney. Would it take you, as an American, to go into a long speech on a question like that?