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MOTION-PICTURE JURISDICTIONAL DISPUTES 863
^Ir. Walsh. Well, I received a telegram from President Green to come to the Miami meet in o-.
]Mr. McCann. So Mr. Green must have been the one that got you there, and Mr. Green probably invited you into this conference before the council meeting ?
Mr. Walsh. The one prior to the council, that is ; yes, sir.
Mr. McCanx. Now then, you say that every member of this threeman committee insisted that the decision should stay just as it was, and that they intended it that way and that they resisted Mr. Green's effort to get changes made in that to suit Mr. Hutcheson?
Mr. Walsh. Absolutely.
]Mr. McCann. They resisted that effort ?
Mr .Walsh. Yes, sir.
Mr. Ej:arns. Mr. Counsel, right at this point, did you ever hear them mention that they would resign if they had to change their decision ?
Mr. Walsh. Well, I had conversations in confidence with one of the committee.
Mr. Kearns. No ; I don't mean that.
Mr. Walsh. And it was confidential, so I will testify if you want me to. but it was confidential.
Mr. Kearns. No ; I don't want you to testify.
Mr. McCanx. Mr Chairman, I don't think anything should be confidential.
Mr. Kearns. I resj^ect his right to withhold something.
Mr. McCann. We have had an awful lot of testimony with respect to this, and there have been averments by the actors that they threatened to resign ; we have had them denying it : and then we have had them modifying it and qualifying it and halfway saying it. I have enough respect for Mr. Walsh's word here that I would like to know what they said to hiuL
Mr. Kearns. I think he has a right to keep anything confidential that was told him in confidence.
Mr. McCann. Mr. Chairman, I don't think anybody has a right to keep anything in confidence from a congressional committee. I am not going to urge it if the chairman holds against me, but I think these facts are too important for anyone to keep confidential.
Mr. Cobb. Only a lawyer
Mr. Kearns. I know ; hut there are a lot of the people in this room, people have told them things in confidence and they might betray an awful lot of things if they told them. It goes back to the philosophy of keeping your word.
Mr. McCann. I don't urge it any further, Mr. Chairman, but we have had some very illuminating statements made here this morning, and I still wish that the three men could remember just what they said, in view of the facts that haA'e been developed here.
Mr. Kearns. I will go this far to ask him whether he ever heard it stated by the committee at meetings, by any member, that if this directive did not stand word for word that they would resign ?
Mr. Walsh. No ; I never heard that.
Mr. Kearns. In an open meeting, you never heard that ?
Mr. Walsh. No, sir.
Mr. Kearns. Or any inference like that ?