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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY HI relations with the Communist Party or are not today members of the Communist Party? Mr. Parks. In my opinion, the few people that I knew are people like myself and feel the way that I do. Mr. Jackson. Well, of course, that is merely your judgment of the matter. Have you discussed their party affiliations with those with whom you were affiliated in the party ? Mr. Parks. I have not, but these people I knew, and this is my honest opinion. You know these people. You know them as well as I do. Mr. Jackson. I will point out to you that in a recent case here in Washington some of the highest officials in Government testified on the stand to their honest belief that a man with whom they had been associated had never been a member of the Communist Party, and in no way constituted any threat to our institutions, but every man who reads the newspapers knows how fallacious that opinion was. I merely point out that after all, in all good faith, you might con- ceivably be entirely wrong as to the present status of membership in the Communist Party of some people whose names you evidence hesitancy about disclosing. Mr. Parks. These men you speak of did not act as informers in any sense of the word. I told you about these people. You know who the people are. And I have told you my opinion of them. And I have told you that I think to force me to do something like this is not befitting this committee. I don't think the committee would benefit from it, and I don't think this is American justice to make me choose one or the other or be in contempt of this committee, which is a committee of my government, or crawl through the mud for no purpose, because you know who these people are. This is what I beg you not to do. Mr. Jacksox. This is also problematic, Mr. Parks. I know who they are, maybe you are entirely right, but I still think it is within the province of the committee to determine how far they will go in this respect. Mr. Parks. T am asking the committee not to do it. I am not setting myself up as a judge. I am asking you to judge. Mr. Velde. I think you are wrong in assuming we know all of the activities in which you were engaged and all the people you were engaged in those activities with. I am satisfied you are wrong in that, and possibly you could furnish us with a lot of information we do not have, and I feel sure you would be willing to do that to serve the best interests of the United States, of which you are a citizen. Mr. Parks. I have told you to the best of my ability of my activities. You say you don't know mine. I have tried to tell you to the best of my ability of my activities. Mr. Wood. We will ask at this time to break in the testimony of this witness to make an announcement concerning his release from the subpena. I request that he not leave the jurisdiction of the com- mittee until later this afternoon. Mr. Maxdel. You want us around the rest of the afternoon? Mr. Wood. Yes. Mr. Maxdel. Thank you. (Witness temporarilv excused.)