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1618 COMMUNISM IN MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY munist Party, and attached to the fifty-ninth assembly district of the Communist Political Association group. I inadvertently said Communist Party, but I meant to say Communist Political Associa- tion. Were you a member of that association? Mr. Stevenson. I decline to answer that question on the same grounds. Mr. Tavenner. Was 1944 Communist Political Association card No. 41784 given to you ? Mr. Stevenson. I decline to answer that question on the same grounds. Mr. Tavenner. According to the Daily Worker of April 5, 1941, you were listed as one of the initial signers of a call to the Fourth Con- gress of the League of American Writers. If that be true, will you state the circumstances under which you united in that enterprise ? Mr. Stevenson. My declination is the same, sir, on the same grounds. Mr. Tavenner. The committee is in possession of information that you at one time or another became active or at least became affiliated with organizations which have been designated by the Attorney Gen- eral of the United States as Communist-front organizations. Now, that does not mean that everyone connected with those organizations were members of the Communist Party. But if you were a member of any of them we would like to know that fact, and we would like for you to explain to the committee the circumstances under which your membership was obtained in those organizations, and what in- fluences, if any, were exerted by the Communist Party on them. Mr. Stevenson. Is that the question, sir ? Mr. Tavenner. I made that statement as a preliminary statement to the questions that I would like to ask you. I show you a photostatic copy of pages 20 to 21 of the June 1943 issue of Soviet Russia Today. These pages contain an open letter to the American people wherein the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship calls on all Americans concerned with preserving United Nations unity to fight the menacing campaign against our Soviet ally. Among the names appearing as signers to this letter are Philip and Janet Stevenson. Will you examine the article referred to and state whether or not you were a signer of that letter sponsored by the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship ? Mr. Stevenson. Well, I shall decline to answer that question, sir, on the same grounds. Mr. Tavenner. The summer of 1938 issue of the League Bulletin— by League, I am referring to the League of American Writers—lists Philip Stevenson as secretary of the league. Were you secretary of the League of American Writers? Mr. Stevenson. Same answer, sir, on the same grounds. Mr. Tavenner. Were you at any time an instructor in the Workers' School of the League of American Writers, and if so I would like to know the circumstances under which your services were acquired for that purpose? Mr. Stevenson. I must decline that question on the same grounds, sir. Mr. Tavenner. I show you a photostatic copy of a press release of the National Federation for Constitutional Liberties. This release was an open letter to the President of the United States and the Con-