Communist infiltration of Hollywood motion-picture industry : hearing before the Committee on Un-American activities, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, first session (1951)

COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY 1535 Mr. Doyle. You, in your closing remark, which was very splendid, as all of it was, used this language, ''We must do all we can to expose the enemy within our country." What can we do, in your judgment, to expose the enemy? When I say the enemy, Mr. Townsend, I am referring to people dedicated to subversive misconduct and to the subversion and the destruction of our American way of life under our constitutional form of government. I am not referring to people who might differ with you or me politically. They have a right to those thoughts, but I am referring in this question to people known to you by personal action and by mass action, determined to subvert, to overthrow, to overturn our Government, if necessary, to carry out the Soviet program. What shall we do to help expose that kind of people ? We can't ship them to Russia, all of them, although we ought to be able to get rid of them, shouldn't we, in some way? Mr. Townsend. Well, it seems to me this matter is more in the area of the committee than it is in my own. I think somehow the Com- munist Party should be made to show its face to the American people, which it hasn't done so far. How that can be accomplished, again, that I don't know. That is what you gentlemen Mr. Doyle. I think you realize, Mr. Townsend, from what you said, because you complimented this committee on what it tried to ac- complish and what it is trying to accomplish—I think you realize—I hope you do—that this committee realizes that while our assignment, as I read yesterday, is to investigate in the United States subversive and un-American propaganda that is instigated from foreign coun- tries or within our own country, nevertheless we are diligently try- ing, consciously trying and endeavoring to do that difficult task within the framework of our Constitution, and I just wish to say this to you, that I hoped that your example in coming clean and cooperating to the maximum with us, even though it must be embarrassing and even though I know that it will eliminate you from some of your former contacts and friends, I want to compliment you on doing that and, as I say, I hope, as a member of this committee, as a citizen of the State of California that all present members or recent members of the Communist Party that place our country, the United States of Amer- ica, ahead of Soviet Russia will come clean, also, and that is without any exceptions. I want to urge every person in California that is patriotic enough to acknowledge his American citizenship in prefer- ence to Soviet communism to come out clean and be man and woman enough to face up and be willing to lose some personal friendship (At this point Representative Francis E. Walter left the hearing room.) Mr. Townsend. I hope my testimony might help some of these peo- ple to do that. Mr. Doyee. Well, I hope it does. I want to publicly urge any man or woman that has got the guts and the gumption to fight for the United States of American to come up and come clean and do it while this committee is here in Los Angeles. Thank you very much. Mr. Townsend. Thank you. Mr. Wood. Mr. Jackson. Mr. Jackson. Mr. Townsend, I will join with the rest of the mem- bers of the committee in thanking you for your statement, You have added a great deal to the knowledge already possessed by the com-