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12. If the subject's new convictions draw him to, or back to, religion, so much the better; he achieves the best of all reasons for opposing communism. He can become actively anti-Communist in his church or other religious organizations. In church groups, as everywhere, he can combat neutralism and anti-anti-communism. As The Road Back indicates, AWARE, in theory and practice, is motivated by the idea that there are only two sides — the "pro- Communist" side and the pro-AwARE side. According to this view, the nearly 1,000 AFTRA members who voted to condemn AWARE are at best "dupes" of the Communist Party. George Sokolsky, an AWARE fellow-traveler, described the AFTRA condemnation as just one more incident in a "struggle between Communists and anti- Communists" for control of the union —and that is also how AWARE saw it. What this drastic either/or means psychologically to the actor or writer who has to go through "self-clearance" — naming the names of those who drew him into "situations," for instance — can only be imagined. Yet for many, unwillingness to submit to the pro- cedure means unemployment. Actors "in trouble" have had to accept as real the phantom world of AWARE, Inc. — a world con- ceived of as polarized between two extremes; on the one hand a tightly knit group of conspirators; on the other a group of right- wing anti-Communists who look on their own politics as the only valid form of anti-communism. Because of this drastic either/or, all who have not joined the "anti-Communist" side remain, in one way or another, suspect to AWARE. This is the criticism of AWARE which has made it such a highly controversial organization in the radio-tv field. It is a criticism which has never been answered convincingly, though few organi- zations have as able a spokesman as AWARE has in its president, Godfrey P. Schmidt. In the following statement, submitted to the author of this report, Mr. Schmidt expresses A WARE'S view on the blacklisting problem. 137