Hearings regarding the communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, first session. Public law 601 (section 121, subsection Q (1947)

COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 37 Mr. Warnkr. I tliink it was shown in England and several other countries. Mr. Stripling. It was also shown in Moscow, to Mr. Stalin ? Mr. Warner. In Moscow and to Stalin ; yes. Mr. Stripling. Here is a picture, however, which portrayed Russia and the Government of Russia in an entirely different light from what it actually was? Mr. Warner. 1 don't know if you can prove it, or that I can prove that it was. Mr. Stripling. I would like to read one quotation. I have here, Mr. Chairman, a book entitled "The Curtain Rises," by Quentin Reynolds Air. Warner. What year was that published in ? Mr. Stripling. Copyrighted in 1944. Mr. Warner. Well, I had nothing to do with Russia in 1944. I want no part of it. I am not interested — unless you want to put it in the record — in what happened then. That book ended in 1937, when ex-Ambassador Davies returned here. Mr. Stripling. Mi'. Reynolds qualifies himself as being a Moscow correspondent. Mr. Warner. He wasn't there in 1937. The Chairman. Just a minute, Mr. Warner. Let Mr. Stripling continue. Mr. Stripling. On page 80, he says [reading] : June 8: Joseph E. Davies left today after a 2-week visit wliich has left us bewildered. Mr. Davies said that he had come mei-ely to deliver a letter to Stalin. Although he didn't say what the letter contained, we are all convinced that it was a suggestion from President Roosevelt, that he, Stalin, and Churchill meet. What bewilders us (and we are sure bewilders Stalin) is the fact that the President has sent Mr. Davies to deliver the letter. Our Embassy is just across the street from the Kremlin and Ambassador Standley is never too busy to walk over to the Kremlin with a letter. Ihere was a distinct Hollywood tinge to the Davies visit. The huge DC-4 whi(h brought Davies to Moscow must weigh about 56,0C0 pounds. It had a crack crew of nine men. Mr. Davies brought his nephew witli him to act as his secretary (his nephew is Lieutenant Stamm, a naval officer). Mr. Davies brought his former valet with him to supervise the preparation of his food (his former valet is now a corporal in the United States Army). Mr. Davies brought his personal physician with him, a necessary precaution because Mr. Davies is not in good health. We all admired the courage of Mr. Davies in undertaking a very difficult 16.000-mile trip by air. No one here questi<ms his need of a secretary, a valet, and a physician. But everyone in journalistic and diplomatic circles here questions the necessity of such a formidable entourage to deliver 2 ounces of mail. Maxim Litvinov arrived a day or so after Mr. Davies, and latvinov brought a print of the Warner r>ros. picture. Mission to Moscow, with him. Stalin tendered a dinner to Mr. Davies at the Kremlin a few days after his arrival. It was a typical Kremlin show reserved for visiting big sliots with the usual 20 or so courses and 30 or so toasts. The press, of course, is never permitted to breathe the rarified air of Kremlin dinners, but our friends in the various embassies always give us accurate reports of sucli dinners. To us the real big news of the dinner was the fact that Nikolai Palgunov attended. That meant that he was still in high favor. We had been hi>ping that liis efficiency and poor judgment would by now have percolated up to the sacro.sanct presence of Vishinsky or Moloiov and that he might be on his way out. The fact that he was at the dinner meant that he was still the white-haired boy in the press department of the foreign office, which is the pressing news for us. The other news was that the film, Mission to Moscow, was shown in Stalin's private projection room after the dinner. Some of the British and Americans who have