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 99 had no trouble getting a passport to go to Moscow and returned to represent the Connnunist book trust in New York. I don't think anybody is being fooled by this. But the American people are not alert. If a Gallup poll in California shows that 50 percent of the people have never heard of the Taft-Hartley bill, you can imagine how apathetic and how ignorant most of them are of this subject. I have a list of books here — I published a list of over 35 books — and if you will bear with me and if I have the time I would like to read a list of books which I would advise every man, woman, and child in America to read. They will then get a picture of this oriental tyranny, this Commmiist-dominated conspiracy to take the world over by force. It will take the words out of Mr. Lenin's mouth, out of Mr. Stalin's mouth. Mr. Molotov is a member of the Politburo. Mr. Vishinsky I consider simply a puppet. First, I would like to ask them to read Das Kapital, by Karl Marx ; then the Max Eastman condensation; then a magnificent book called The Ked Prussian; The Dream We Lost, by Fred A. Utley; Report on Russians, by Paul Winiton, who spent 14 years in Moscow as a correspondent; Towards Soviet America, by William Z. Foster, present head of the Communist Party in America, where on page 275 he advocates the liquidation of the American Legion, the rotary clubs, all fraternal organizations, arming of the farmers and arming of the workers, with a dictatorship of the proletariat to take America over by force. That is page 275 of Towards Soviet America. You will have trouble getting the book. You will have to advertise for it. Yogi and the Commissar, by Arthur Koestler, one of the magnificent writers living today who was a Communist member of the party. He spent a great deal of time in Russia. Dark Side of the Moon. 1 defy anyone to read that without being frightened to death. That is a documentary testimony, edited by T. S. Elliott, of the 1,750,000, estimated, Poles, innocent Polish people taken into concentration camps by the Russians in early 1939. The three books by Mr. Dallin, particularly his book, which will be in Look magazine, Slave Labor in Communist Russia. Over at Uncle Joe's, a magnificent book by Atkinson; Russian Report, by William White; I Chose Freedom, by Victor Kravechenko; One Who Survived; Why They Behave Like Russians, by Fisher; In Search of Soviet Gold, by Littlepage; and one of the best books of all, Pattern for World Revolution, written anonymously. This is only a very, very small list of books, but I guarantee you that anyone that reads them will fear for the safety of America. Mr. Stripling. Mr. Menjou, yesterday Mr. Wood, Mr. Sam Wood, testified that he considered members of the Communist Party in this country to be the agents of a foreign i)rincipal. Do you share that opinion with Mr. Wood? Mr. Menjol;. The members of the Communist Party in the United States unquestionably, in my mind, are agents of the Commintern in Moscow or the Coinminform in Belgi'ade, or wherever it is. The papers found, on I think it was Professor May, who is now in jail, the Polish-born member of the Canadian Parliament, would prove to me conclusively that the Commintern has never stopped working. This was a sop to America.