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36 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY
eriiment was interested in tlie making of the pieture. This is one of the reasons. I am not here to defend tiie (lovernnient hecause that is their business.
Mr. Thomas. We will he glad to have it.
Mr. VVaknkr. When the Germans were halted at Stalingrad, that was one of the things Mr. Davies told my brother, that it was essential to keep the Russians in there —
Mr. Thomas said "pitching," and I replied:
* * * pitching to give our country a chance to arm. the Navy, the Army, airpower, and everything else, which we were not prepared for at the time, and of course history ha.s told the story.
And I want to introdnce the front pages of a New York newspaper, starting with the day following Pearl Harbor, December 8, 1941, right np to December 30, 1942, which gives a very vivid history of the process of the war by the Russians.
The Ctiairman. How many pages are there, Mr. Warner?
]\Ir. Warner. I am going to read them.
The Chairman. No. How many are there?
Mr. WARNf:R, There are about 25 — just papers.
The Chairman. We will take that as an exhibit."
Mr. Stripling. Is that the chroiiological statement which you gave to the committee?
Mr. Warner, It is, to one degree or another. And I have a copy of the chronological statement, too. I will give you another one, if you want,
Mr, Stripling. Yes.
Mr. Warner. But this tells the story of Russia's distress, Russia getting beaten.
The Chairman, We will be glad to receive those as an exhibit.
Go ahead with the questioning, Mr, Stripling,
]\Ir, Stripling. Now, Howard Koch wrote the script for Missior to Moscow ?
Mr. Warner. Yes ; he did.
Mr. Stripling, Was Howard Koch one of those writers whom you .subsequently dismissed?
Mr, Warner. Let us get it correct, I never dismissed anyone for any activity. His contract expired and we didn't renew his contract.
Mr, Stripling. You haven't employed him since?
Mr, Warner, We didn't make a new deal with him,
Mr. Stripling. Now, when the picture Mission to Moscow was made, were you aware that there were certain historical events which were erroneously portrayed in the picture?
Mr, Warner. I stated the only historical events that I know, by claim of many people — the press and public, in general — were the trials of the purge, or whatever they called it at the time in the book, which was condensed.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Warner
Mr.' Warner. I told you, I don't know if it Avas all correct or not.
Mr, Stripling, Yes,
Mr. Warner, Mr, Davies was
Mr, Stripling, The ])oint is this, Mr, Warner, that here was a picture which was produced and shown to the American people, and it was shown in other countries, I presume, was it not?
' See appendix, p. 523, for exhibit 8.