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COMMUNISM IN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY 503
Mr. Sthu'linc. Mr. Cliairinan. we have here
Mr. Bkkcut. I was an indepeiulent writer and wanted to be an "mdeijendent writer and I point that out and also tlieoretically, I tiiink, it was the best for me not to join any party whatever. And all these thjnos you read here were not only written for the German communists, but they Mere also written for workers of any other kind; Social Democrat workers were in these j)erformances; so were Catholic workers from Catholic unions; so were workers which never had been in a party or didn't want to tro into a party.
Tlie Chairman! Mr. Brecht, did Gei'hart Easier ever ask you to join the Communist Party?
Ml-. Bkecht. No, no.
The Chairman. Did Hanns Eisler ever ask you to join the Comjnunist Party i'
Ml*. Breoht. No; he did not. I think they considered me just as a writer who wanted to write and do as he saw it, but not as a political figure.
The (^HAiRMAN. Do you recall anyone ever having asked you to join the Communist Party?
Mr. Brecht. Some people might have suggested it to me, but then I found out that it was not my business.
The Chairman. Who were those people who asked you to join the Communist Party?
Mr. Brec HT. Oh, readers.
The Chairman. Wlio?
Mr. Brecht. Readers of my poems or people from the audiences. You mean — there was never an official approach to me to publish — ^ —
The Chairman. Some people did ask you to join the Communist Party.
Mr. Kenny. In Germany. [Aside to witness.]
Mr. Brecht. In Germany, you mean in Germany ?
The Chairman. No ; I mean in the United States.
Mr. Brecht. No, no, no.
The Chairman. He is doing all right. He is doing much better than tmany other witnesses you have brought here.
Do you recall whether anyone in the United States ever asked you to join the Communist Party?
^Ir. Brecht. No; I don't.
The Chairman. Mr. McDowell, do you have any ([uestions?
Mr. McDowell. No; no questions.
The Chairman. Mr. Vail?
Mr. Vail. No questions.
The Chairman. Mr. Stripling, do you have any more cjuestions?
Mr. Striplin(;. I would like to ask Mr. Brecht whether or not he wrote a poem, a song, rather, entitled, "Forward, "We've Not Forgotten."
Mr. McDowell. ''Forward.'" what?
Mr. StripliN(}. Forward, We've Not Forgotten.
Mr. Brecht. I can't think of that. The English title may be the i-eason.
Mr. Stripling. Would you translate it for him into German?
(Mr. Baumgardt translates into German.)
•Nfr. Brecht. Oh, now I know: yes.