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)

48 COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY "Thirteen Allied warships lost oft" Java. "Java fell. "Bataan fell. "General .Marshall and Harry Hopkins go to I»ndon to discuss possibilities of second front. "Arrangements completed for getting Unitetl States supplies to Russia, which continues on offensive. "Corregidor fell. "Battle of Coral Sea. "Germans regain offensive in Russia. "Burma fell. "Germans began move across Africa toward Cairo. "Arnold in Britain to arrange American bombers to join British as most practical method of helping Russians. Marshall promisetl second front as soon as feasible. Starting June l9/,2 {chronolo(fic4iny ) "Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor and Midway. "Battle Midway. "Germans continue offensive deeper into Russia. "United States-Britain-Russia signed 20-year mutual assistance pact. "United States agreed on second front this year. "United States completed lend-lease agreement for Russia. "Nazis rolled ahead in Africa ; captured Tobruk and crossed Egyptian border. "Russians lost Sevastopol. "British attacked at El Alamein. "Germans drive toward Stalingrad in August. "Russians abandon Krasnodar. "Nazis drive wedge into Stalingrad line * * * cross Kerch Strait * * * reach Volga, south of Stalingrad * * * capture Novorassisk. Wilkie goes to Russia to see Stalin ; aslted for immediate second front. "Stalin asked Allied aid "on time." "Stalingrad counteroffensive began in November. "Russian offensive started all along the line in December." Mr. Stripling. If you liad not been approached by Mr. Davies or by anyone in the Government indirectly it would have been very likely that you would not have filmed Mission to Moscow. Mr. Warner. No ; we would not. Mr. Stiupling. I think the writers are the most important people in this investigation. I believe you mentioned Koch. Mr. WaeneR. Howard Koch. ]\Ir. Stripling. That you dismissed him and he was later picked up by Samuel Goldwyn. Mr. Warner. I understand he is now working for him. Mr. Stripling. Why, in your opinion, did Mr. Goldwyn, or, say, any other studio — why should they pick up a writer like that? Mr. Warnp:k. Here is where I think I can be of immeasureable good, in my next statement, aside from everything else I am trying to do for the good of my country. I have talked to other producers as an American and not in the line of" my duty of doing business or running a studio at all. Just why these men engage these pet)ple when they know their tendencies, especially the ones who are actually proven Communists, and why they have carried them all these years. I even went so far as to tell them : If you go through the records of the scripts that the men have been assigned to, you will find that very few of their works have been produced. In each case, I either got a blank stare in return or "If we didn't hire them, someone else would." That is about as plain as I can put it. Mr. Stripling. Isn't that a very unhealthy situati(m for the industry? Mr. W.vRNER. Yes ; it is exceedingly unhealthy. And I think in my opinion it is very un-American if everything that can be proven against these people isproven. Naturally, these commies and lefties and what not, the party-line followers— no one has proven anything against them in print other than being; investigated. Mr. Stripling. But you do know they try to inject these lines info your scripts, as you found out. Mr. Warner. I personally know that, and I think everybody else knows they Iry to do it in the studios. No one is cheating anyone. They do it in a huraoroii-s vein.