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494 COMMUNISM IN MOTION' PICTURE INDUSTRY
you on September 1!), calling for your ap[)earance bel'ttre the foinniittee. You are here in response to a sub})ena. are you not <' •" Mr. Brecht. Yes.
Mr. Striplixo. Noav. I will rejjeat the original questi(^n. Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Connnunist Party of any country ?
Mr. Brix^ht. Mr. Chairman, I have heard my colleaiiues when they considered this question not as ])roper. but I am a guest in this country and do not want to enter into any legal arguments, so I will answer your question fully as well I can.
I was not a member or am not a member of any Communist Party. The Chairman. Your answer is. then, that you h-.ive never been a member of the Communist Party ^ Mr. Brecht. That is correct.
Mr. Stripling. You were not a member of the Connnunist Party in Germany ?
Mr. Brecht. No; I was not.
Mr, Stripling. Mr. Brecht, is it true that you have written a number of very revolutionary poems, plays, and other writings?
Mr. Brecht. I have written a number of poems and songs and plays in the fight against Hitler and, of course, they can be considered, therefore, as revolutionary because I, of course, was for the overthrow of that government.
The Chairman. Mr. Stripling, we are not interested in any works that he might have written advocating the overthrow of Germany or the government there. Mr. Stripling. Yes; I understand.
Well, from an examination of the works which Mr. Brecht has written, particularly in collaboration with Mr. Hanns Eisler, he seems to be a person of international im})ortance to the Comnnniist revolutionary movement.
Now, Mr. Brecht, is it true or do you know whether or not you have written articles which have appeared in publications in the Soviet zone of Germany within the ])ast few months?
Mr. Brecht. No ; I do not remember to have written such articles. I have not seen any of them printed. I have not written any such articles just now. I write very few articles, if any.
Mr. StripliN(;. I have here, Mr. Chairman, a document which I will hand to the translator and ask him to identify it for the connnittee and to refer to an article which refers on page 72. Mr. Brecht. May I speak to that publication? Mr. Stripling. I beg your pardon ? Mr. Brecht. May I explain this publication ? Mr. Stripling. Yes. Will you identify the publication? Mr. Brecht. Oh, yes. That is not an article, that is a scene out of a i)lay I wrote in, t think, 1937 or 11)38 in Denmark. The play is called Private Life of the Master Race, and this scene is one of the scenes out of this i)lay about a Jewish w(mian in Berlin in the year of '36 or '37. It was. I see, printed in this magazine Ost und West, Julv 194G.*'
'■' See apixMidix, p. 549, for PxliiMt 9.".. "" Sfp appendix, p. r^rtO, for exhibit 04.