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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 133 There were no involved or detailed political discussions at all; not at all. Mr. Tavenner. Will you tell the committee what the final result and effect was upon you of the correspondence you were having with Captain Tompkins and the experience that you were undergoing in Yugoslavia in working with the underground ? Mr. Hayden. The final effect? Mr. Tavenner. Yes. Mr. Hayden. The net result ? Mr. Tavenner. Yes. Mr. Hayden. Well Mr. Tavenner. Let us put it this way: What was the effect at that time ? Mr. Hayden. At that time—I am glad you put it that way—there was a sort of thing churning inside me that I didn't know how to handle, but it seemed there was something in this world that I ought to find out about. That was the net result of the whole thing. When I got home on leave in December 1944, one of the first things I wanted to do, on a purely emotional basis, was go back and see Tompkins and talk to him about this thing, which I did. I flew out to the coast and basked in the reflected glory of the Partisan movement. Tompkins sort of showed me off as an exhibit. Mr. Tavenner. Before leaving the Yugoslavian section of your testimony, were you recognized in any way by the Government of Yugoslavia or by the Partisans for your services in working with the underground ? Mr. Hayden. Yes. Mr. Tavenner. What was it? Mr. Hayden. I was given a decoration called the Order of Merit. I haven't picked it up yet, but I have the citation. I guess it is at the Embassy. I don't know where it is. The medal itself, I don't know where it is, but I have in my files the citation, the Order of Merit, which I think came for the same operation for which I got a Silver Star. Mr. Tavenner. Was that the second highest decoration that could be awarded to a person of a foreign country, foreign to Yugoslavia ? Mr. Hayden. I am not sure of that. I have heard that it was, but I am not sure at all. Mr. Tavenner. So you received a Silver Star as a decoration ? Mr. Hayden. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. And in addition to the other decoration which you mentioned ? Mr. Hayden. Yes, sir. Mr. Tavenner. On your return to the United States for your 30-day leave, did you again see Capt. Warwick Tompkins ? Mr. Hayden. That was the first thing I did. I didn't know where I was going to be sent. The Yugoslav situation seemed to be more or less under control at that time. They had gotten the Partisans a great deal more equipment and built them into some semblance of strength, so some of us were sent back to the States, and I was anxious to get in the same kind of work somewhere else. I didn't know where, but I hoped it would be possible to get into guerrilla outfits, because it is very interesting; it is stimulating; it is better than a lot of duty could be.