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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 475
Mr. STKirLixo (reading-) :
Note to Mary McCall : Mayor Bowron's speech will open the program and will include the theuie of the program.
Dramatization of President Roosevelt's record. The details of tiiis will be discussed at a general meeting for all the writers, 10 minutes, to be written by Alvah Bessie — •
Do you know Mr. Bessie?
]\Ir. ScHAKY. No; I did not know liim at the time. I knew him after that. Mr. STRiPLi>rG (reading) :
Leon Meadows and Abe Polansky.
The United Nations Section (this section will also be detailed at the writers' conference), 15 minutes, to be written by Vladimir Pozner and King Lardner.
Mr. SciiARY. .Yes.
Mr. Stripling (reading) :
The Human Side of President Roosevelt, 5 minutes, to be written by Harry Trivers, Abe Burroughs, Harry Kurnitz, and Abe Polansky. The section of the program that will segue from
Mr. ScHARY. Segue.
Mr. Stripling (reading) :
from the memorial to President Roosevelt to the pledge of support to President Truman, 3 minutes, to be written by Paul Green.
Pledge of Allegiance to the Ideals of Mr. Roosevelt and to the Future, 1 minute, to be written by Dalton Trumbo. Introduction to the Pledge of Allegiance, 2 minutes, to be written by Dalton Trumbo.
By the time you get this letter we will have called you on the telephone and asked for your help in arranging a meeting for all the writers this afternoon. Thank you.
Sincerely,
DORE SCHARY.
Mr. ScHARY. That is right.
Mr. Stripling. Now, Mr. Schary, I read this letter for one purpose. Several of the writers who are assigned here to do certain portions of the program have been identified before this committee as being members of the Communist Party. They have likewise refused to deny that they are members of the Communist Party. If you had such an assignment to do over again, would you call upon men who had been identified before a Committee of Congress and men who had refused to deny before a conmiittee of Congress, to write these various assignments ?
Mr. SciTARY. If I were assigned today as I was at that time by the city to do a memorial program to President Roosevelt, some of my selections on that list might be ditferent.
At the time that memorial was written it was shortly after the death of Franklin Roosevelt. These writers were all people connected with the War Mobilization Board and I asked for help in the arranging of this program because we were desperately in need of time.
I can only say again that these men at that time wrote speeches that I thought were very American and very much in tribute to the President. They had nothing subversive in them.
Mr. Stripling. Mr. Schary, do you think or do you consider that threre is any Comnmnist influence in tlie motion-picture industry in any field, which is definitely a disrupting influence or force within the motion-picture industry?