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3472 COMMUNISM IX HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY Mr. Odets. Well, I could only write this if I were asked to, and I must have been asked to. Mr. Tavenner. Who was the person that asked you to write that article for New Masses? Mr. Odets. I don't know, but I would guess it would be one of the editors of New Masses. I knew a little at that time, a man named Joe North, and it might have been Joe North who came up. I don't quite remember. Mr. Tavenner. In the article you summed up your adventure in Cuba in part as follows: This impartial commission of investigation has shown its uncertainty of pur- pose by being honored by deportation by the present Cuban military dictatorship in collusion with the American Embassy officials. Their collusion is clearly marked out by their negative response to our call for help. I am interested in the "term used in referring to your commission as an impartial commission of investigation. Are you now of the opinion that this commission which was in fact headed by Komorow- ski, though you were used as a cover for it, was actually an impartial commission ( Mr. Odets. I would say that although it had all sorts of left and liberal elements in it, that I would say now that the commission was definitely slanted, Communist Party slanted. Mr. Tavenner. Well, it was Communist Party controlled under the de facto leadership of Komorowski, wasn't it? Mr. Odets. They don't quite do it that way, sir. There is always a certain, what I call a democratic procedure. Things are put to a vote. The only thing is that it doesn't help to put things to a vote and they have the know-how and you don't have the know-how. Mr. Tavenner. It was the equivalent of telling you what to do, was it not ? Mr. Odets. Yes, you who didn't have the know-how, so you had to rely upon people that did. Air. Kearney. Mr. Odets, I just hastily scanned your article in the pamphlet entitled "Rifle Rule in Cuba," by Carleton Beals and Clif- ford Odets, your article headed "Machine-Gun Reception." Some few minutes ago you testified as to your indignant feeling against the Communist Party which was divided 50-50 against the police for the manner in which you were treated. I can see in this article over your name the indignant manner in which you write concerning your treat- ment by the Cuban police. But I fail to see any indignant protest of yours in this article, the manner in which the Communist Party used you, as I said some time ago, as a fall guy. If there is, I wish you would point it out to me. Mr. Odets. All that happened there was that I simply didn't know about this all until later. I had no realization of it and did not really know what happened. When it did happen, I moved out of the Communist Party. Mr. Kearney. After you found out about it, did you make any effort to change your statement? Mr. Odets. No, I made no effort to change my statement. I should think it would have been much too late. Mr. Tavenner. Did I understand you to say when you discovered the real facts relating to the mission to Cuba that you withdrew from the Communist Party?