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74 COMMUNISM EST MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY you the campus for the meeting place for this Writers' Congress, and also persuaded him to let you use the university's name as cosponsor of the event? Mr. Jerome. I have no knowledge of that. Mr. Walter. Is that the Dr. Sproul who is connected with the Institute of Pacific Relations ? Mr. Jerome. Is that question directed to me ? Mr. Tavenner. I would not like to state without definite knowledge. You state you had no knowledge of the making of those arrange- ments. Will you state to the committee what knowledge you did have about the holding of that congress ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privi- lege. Mr. Tavenner. You and Alexander Trachtenberg, Joseph Fields, Lionel Berman, and Louis Budenz were members of a committee, were you not, within the Communist Party ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privi- lege. Mr. Tavenner. Are you now or were you at any time a member of the National Religious Political Commission of the Communist Party? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privi- lege. Mr. Tavenner. Did you attend a conference of the School of Jewish Studies at the Jefferson School of Social Science auditorium in New York, January 14 and 15, 1950, at which time you were elected a member of the board of directors of that organization ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privilege against self-incrimination. Mr. Tavenner. Are you now or have you ever been a member of the International Workers' Order ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privilege against self-incrimination. Mr. Tavenner. Have you ever conferred with Steve Nelson on Communist Party matters ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question, invoking the privilege against self-incrimination. Mr. Tavenner. In October 1947 the Committee on Un-American Activities subpenaed before it members of the Communist Party from Hollywood, Calif. Did you discuss with the persons subpenaed, their counsel or agents, the strategy adopted by that group in refusing to answer questions propounded by the staff and members of this com- mittee ? Mr. Jerome. No, sir. Mr. Tavenner. Subsequent to these hearings a rally was held en- titled "Keep America Free," which was sponsored by the Conference on Cultural Freedom and Civil Liberties and the Progressive Citizens of America. Did you discuss with anyone the formation of this rally prior to the holding of it ? Mr. Jerome. I decline to answer the question on grounds of possible self-incrimination. Mr. Tavenner. Do you recall who was the chairman of that rally ? Mr. Jerome. No, sir.