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3518 COMMUNISM IN HOLLYWOOD MOTION-PICTURE INDUSTRY of the party at the time, and Madelaine reproached me for my lack of faith in the party, and said again that the aims of the party were no different from the aims of the American people, and it truly seemed so during these war years, and that this was the only place to work in an organized way against Hitlerism, against the things I didn't believe in. I am sorry to say I started going to party meetings again. Even at this point she asked me to rejoin my original group, which I did. Incidentally, I don't ever remember being formally moved from this group. It split up a number of times. People drifted out and drifted in, and so on. I don't remember a formal move to another group. I have not a great deal on the subject of names of people I knew in the party. I met hundreds of people in the years I have been in California, and about many of them it is impossible to remember where I met them and how and under what circumstances, and I know the committee does not want hearsay information. But I would like to give the names of those people'I am sure, absolutely sure, I was in party groups with. I cannot identify the period of time, but I have made the best job I can of this. Mr. Tavenner. By party groups, are you referring to closed party meetings ? Miss Lennart. Yes, closed party meetings; exactly. Later on there were none, but when I joined the party, there were many open meet- ings at which we were always told that it was an open meeting and we were told that there would be people there who were not members of the party and not to assume that they were. That is why I am trying to be very definite about this. Mr. Tavenner. So you are differentiating between that type of meetings and closed meetings. Miss Lennart. That is right. I am speaking about closed branch meetings. And the people who drifted in and out, whom I saw at various times, were Paul Jarrico Mr. Tavenner. Paul Jarrico has been identified by numerous wit- nesses before the committee as a member of the Communist Party. Miss Lennart. This is in addition to the people I have already named, of course. George Sklar. Mr. Tavenner. Will you give us additional descriptive information regarding him ? Miss Lennart. Mr. Sklar was a writer in Hollywood. I understood that he had been a playwright before. During this time I knew him he was a screen writer. That is all I know about him. Mr. Tavenner. Do you know whether he is now working as a screen writer ? Miss Lennart. No, I don't, Mr. Tavenner. I haven't seen Mr. Sklar or heard about him for a number of years. All of my information dates up to a certain point and no further. Martin Berkeley, who has appeared before the committee; Lester Cole; Alvah Bessie; Gor- don Kahn; Henry Blankfort; Herbert Biberman; George and Tiba Willner; Albert Maltz; Roland Kibbie. I would like to say that I met Mr. Kibbie very early in my party experience, at the end of 1938 or the beginning of 1939. I have never seen him again and was told way back that he got out shortly after the period I met him. I don't know where he is now or what he is doing.