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2314 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY judgment—he was a man who I remember had read more poets than I had read, and that was at a time when I was reading a great many poets. He was a man who read a great deal. I think both things existed. Mr. Tavenner. Did he discuss with you at any time your assign- ment to write the story of Tom Mooney ? Mr. Levy. Yes. I told him what I wanted to do. Mr. Tavenner. Was that before he asked you to become a member of the Communist Party ? Did he know Mr. Levy. I understand your question. I don't know the sequence of events. It was all about the same time. (Representative Bernard W. Kearney left the hearing room at this point.) Mr. Levy. It all happened about the same time, and I cannot say what preceded what each time. He might very well have known. Mr. Tavenner. Did you at any time during the course of your work in connection with that assignment feel that you were being influenced in any way by members of the Communist Party in the performance of your task that was being attempted ? Mr. Levy. As I say, from the time I got to San Francisco until the job was finished all of my contacts were either with Mr. Mooney or his sister. But it was obvious that these contacts were reflecting a great many—I think you have to understand what kind of a man Mooney was. This is a man, who was, I think, as interesting as any man I have ever known. He had a particular quality. But he had a tre- mendous egotism, and he thought of himself in all the meetings I had with him, he spoke of himself in the third person. And he thought of himself as a nation thinks of itself, or as the Congress thinks of itself. He never thought of himself as a man named Tom Mooney. He would never say, "I think"; he would say, "Tom Mooney thinks." I never heard him use the first person singular pronoun. Now, these were things that I wanted to have in the book. There were a great many things. To me he was a character, and a great character. Mr. Tavenner. Did Mr. Mooney at any time make a statement to you regarding either his membership or nonmembership in the Communist Party ? Mr. Levy. No ; but he said to me a number of times, "Tom Mooney and the Soviet Union," as if they both occupied the same size of terri- tory. So I would doubt that Mr. Jackson. The sequence would seem to indicate that he per- haps occupied more space than the Soviet Union. Mr. Levy. That was always a sequence, an accidental Mr. Doyle. May I ask a question right there: At the time he used that phrase, "Tom Mooney and the Soviet Union," did he use it in such a way that it indicated to you that there was cooperation or functioning together by Tom Mooney and the Soviet Union ? Mr. Levy. I would think not. I would think that it indicated that there might be a temporary alliance at one/point or another, but at no time a breaking down of the borders, so to speak.