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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 123 Miss Sondergaard. I must refuse to answer that question on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Wood. Do you refuse to answer? Miss Sondergaard. I said I did refuse. Mr. Wood. You must say you refuse to answer. Miss Sondergaard. I am sorry. I didn't hear you. Mr. Wood. When you say you must refuse to answer, it isn't an answer. The question is : Do you answer? Miss Sondergaard. I am sorry. I do mean that. Mr. Wood. For the reasons that you have given ? Miss Sondergaard. For the reasons previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Are you familiar with an organization called the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship? Miss Sondergaard. Mr. Chairman, again I must refer to your long list of organizations and refuse to answer that question on the basis previously stated. May I say something while we are waiting here about this business of suddenly branding every progressive and every progressive organization in our country, organizations which have done wonderful and fine work in the past, branding them as sub- versive ? This I find very shocking and very saddening. Mr. Tavenner. Are you a member of the Communist Party at this time or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party ? Miss Sondergaard. I refuse to answer that question for the reasons previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Miss Sondergaard, the committee is in possession of information which discloses that on December 1, 1944, you were regis- tered as a Communist, and your card bore the number 47328 for the year 1945; that is, the card bore that number for the year 1945. Do you wish to deny or affirm that information or explain it? Miss Sondergaard. I refuse to answer the question on the grounds previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Are you making a distinction in your own mind about this business of suddenly branding every progressive and every because those terms are often used interchangeably ? Miss Sondergaard. I refused to answer that question on the terms previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Was your Communist Party number in 1944 the number 46943? Miss Sondergaard. I refuse to answer that question for the reasons previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. You are familiar, I assume, with an organization called the Motion Picture Artists' Committee? Miss Sondergaard. Mr. Chairman, I believe that is on the long, long list of what are now known as subversive organizations, and I refuse to answer it for the reasons previously stated. Mr. Tavenner. Have you been a sponsor at any time of the League of Women Shoppers? Miss Sondergaard. I refuse to answer that question for the reasons previously stated. Mr. Kearney. I would like to ask the witness this question, and I think that it calls for a "Yes" or "No" answer.