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3464 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Odets. I beg your pardon. Mr. Kearney. Read the question. (The pending question was read by the official reporter.) Mr. Odets. I should think that Komorowski was a member of the Communist Party, definitely. Mr. Kearney. When you say you should think that Komorowski was a member of the Communist Party, upon what do you base that assumption ? Mr. Odets. I was only nominally the chairman of this committee. When I got on the boat and the committee started for Cuba, I dis- covered, should I say to my disgust, that this man actually was the expert and I was the idealist, so to speak, that was connected. I was the idealist who had some kind of publicity value and he was the expert on Latin-American affairs. He spoke with such authority and such knowledge that I simply supposed that he was, if there were other Communist Party delegates on this committee, that he was the top one. Mr. Kearney. You mean that he spoke with such authority on Communist affairs ? Mr. Odets. I would put it that way. Mr. Kearney. Did he ever tell you that he was a member of the Communist Party ? Mr. Odets. No ; they never do. Mr. Kearney. What else transpired on the voyage from New York to Cuba that would lead you to believe that this individual was a member of the Communist Party? Did you discuss with him Com- munist Party affairs? Mr. Odets. No, but there were, what I should call tactical discus- sions, what do you do when you get there, what happens, what kind of statements shall one give the press. And since this man led the discussion, since this man planned the tactics, I would say that he was a Communist Party member and was really the head of the delegation. Mr. Kearney. What do you mean by planning tactics? Do you mean Communist Party tactics? Mr. Odets. No; I mean in relation to this particular expedition, let's call it, this particular junket. I was, for instance, astonished to learn on the boat that when we got to Cuba we were going to be arrested. This was news to me. I didn't know anything about that, to make an example. So there would be a meeting on what do we do when we get arrested. And this was the man who seemed to know what we do. Mr. Kearney. You were advised you were to be arrested. Did they tell yon what you were to be arrested for? On what grounds? Mr. Odets. What grounds? Well, the grounds were that we were persona non grata in Cuba at that time. Mr. Kearney. That covers a lot of grounds, does it not? Mr. Odets. That is kind of what happened. Mr. Kearney. Were you accused directly of being members of the Communist Party? Mr. Odets. The delegation was being accused of being a Com- munist delegation, and the inception of the delegation, when it was brought to my attention, was that it was a broad front delegation.