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COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 311 Mr. Doyle. Did that Radio Writers' Guild make financial contribu- tions to any organization which was interested in informing the American people on any subject in connection with atomic energy ? Mr. Moore. That question I decline to answer on the grounds pre- viously stated. Mr. Doyle. If the organization about which I am asking you is not listed in any way, why would anything it did be, in your judgment, apt to incriminate you? It is not listed as subversive group. I am not asking you about any other group. I am asking you about this one group. Mr. Moore. You are asking a question that it seems to me is an at- tempt to tie me up with other organizations. I decline to answer for this reason. Mr. Doyle. Maybe you are trying to anticipate what I am going to ask, but you might be mistaken, you see. Mr. Moore. I will stand on my answer. Mr. Doyle. I am not trying to trap you. I am interested in trying to get your philosophy as to why you think answering a question as to the Radio Writers' Guild would incriminate you when it is not listed in any way in any subversive group. (The witness conferred with his counsel.) . Mr. Moore. Counsel has given me some kind of legal advice I don't understand, but I stand on my answer. Mr. Doyle. Do I understand that you heard your counsel and still don't understand him ? Mr. Moore. I heard the finish. Mr. Wood. Any further questions, Mr. Doyle ? Mr. Doyle. One more question. Do I understand your position to be substantially this: That, if you were asked any question by counsel or by one of the members of the committee with reference to> any subject as to the activities or objectives or purposes or functioning of any group listed in this book published by the committee on March 3, 1951, you. would refuse to answer on the grounds that it might incriminate you ? Mr. Moore. I guess that is substantially right; yes, sir. Mr. Doyle. Well, the reason I asked you that was not to trap you. I notice you have refused to answer any question that, was asked you about any organization or committee listed in this book. May I ask you this question: Do I understand then that you refusal to answer my question about the Radio Writers' Guild, which you have stated you this question: Do I understand then that your refusal to answer in 1945, is because you feel that your answer to that question might directly or indirectly lead you into being asked about the function- ing of any of these groups that are listed as subversive in this book ? Mr. Moore. Yes, sir. Mr. Doyle. Thank you. Mr. Wood. Mr. Walter. Mr. Walter. Mr. Moore, in the course of your preparation of scripts for radio, television, and the theater, did you ever do anything on the atomic bomb or the horrors of it? Did you write anything about the use of the atomic bomb ? Mr. Moore. Not that I recall; no, sir. Mr. Walter. That is all.