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COMMUXISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 113
He said :
President Roosevelt is waniioiigeriug in assisting Britain and France in a capitalistic war.
He also told me that he was writing a great many lettei's to the Hearst press under the name of an uncle, I believe, whose son was a member of the crew of a submarine that had sailed to pass its tests. He told me he was pamphleteering very, very hard in this cause and used the death of this sailor as an example of the perils to the American public and the American Navy of the Koosevelt warmongering policy.
The Chairman. Just a moment. Mr. Wood.
Mr. Wood. May I ask you w^hen that was ?
Mr. MoFFiTT. That was during the time of the Berlin-Moscow pact, when the Communist Party line was to block the war effort, denouncing Great Britain.
It was asked of Mr. Menjou if there was any touchstone by which you can identify a Communist. I think there is a touchstone by which you can identify a Communist. I think if you look at their attitude during the period of the Berlin-Moscow pact and you find that they approved of everything Nazi Germany did at that time and then reversed themselves on the very day that the Germans invaded Russia you will find that that person is a Communist and that he is following the Communist Party line.
Mr. Trumbo during that period wrote a book called The Remarkable Andrew. That book was bought by Paramount and was being prepared for production by another producing unit at the studio. I heard, though I do not know, that much of the time he was supposed to be working with me he was over in that unit assisting them, though that was not the story he was assigned to. The Remarkable Andrew said that we should not help the powers resisting fiiscism for the curious reason that the ghost of Andrew Jackson would not approve of it. The fact that Andrew Jackson had fought at the Battle of New Orleans to Mr. Trumbo was a conclusive reason at that time that we should not assist Russia in resisting potential Nazi invasion.
Mr. Stripling. Did you continue to work with Mr. Trumbo; did you complete the script you were working on ?
Mr. MoFFiTT. The producer returned. I did not mention that Mr. Trumbo hadn't been present because I felt that a point of professional ethics was involved at that time not to snitch on my collaborator. So the producer left town again and the same conditions continued for, I believe, about 6 weeks.
Do you wish to know anything of Mr. Trumbo's public record ?
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Trumbo is another individual who has been subpenaed and on which we have a quite voluminous record on which he will be questioned next week.
Mr. Moffitt. I have a quotation from an article written by Mr. Trumbo that I believe should be introduced as evidence. With the chairman's permission I would like to read it.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Chairman, I should like to point out Mr. INIoffitt testified before the subconnnittee in Los Angeles in May at some length. He is referring to testimony which he gave. I assume that is permissible?
The Chairman. Yes; that is agreeable.