Mr. TAVENNER. Do you mean to say that the Communist Party was in favor of the war, and, therefore, inasmuch as you disagreed with it, you got out of the Communist Party? (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. CARLSON. I was against the invasion by the North Koreans of South Korea. That is my position. I didn’t approve of that at all. In fact, I don’t approve of war really of any kind. Mr. TAVENNER. I misunderstood your answer entirely. You believed that the North Koreans invaded South Korea? Are you assigning the Korean war as your reason for getting out of the Communist Party? What I am getting at is: What was the Communist Party doing about the Korean war with which you disagreed? That is the point I am trying to develop. (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. CARLSON. I am not really in a position, I don’t think, to say what the Communist Party did about that. Officially. There was a period of time when I suppose I was--Well, I don’t know what word to use--probably losing faith, or disagreeing, or something with the activities. And that was the real change in my mind. That was the thing, the straw that broke the camel’s back, you might say. Mr. TAVENNER. Do you mean the Korean war? Mr. CARLSON. Yes. Mr. TAVENNER. What was the Communist Party doing about the Korean war that made this matter so important it affected your decision about breaking your connection with the party? (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. CARLSON. My decision was made right then in my own mind when that war broke out. Mr. TAVENNER. I am not talking about the time; I am talking about what the Communist Party did to create such a situation which prevented you from continuing as a member of the Communist Party. (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. CARLSON. My impression was that they favored the North Koreans, and I didn’t. Mr. TAVENNER. How did the Communist Party handle that question in its meetings? (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. TAVENNER. Now actually the Korean war began in June 1950, didn’t it? Mr. CARLSON. As near as my recollection, I was thinking it was 1949. Mr. TAVENNER. And you say you withdrew from the Communist Party in 1949? (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. CARLSON. I am sure in my mind that it was in the fall of 1949 that I failed to reregister in the Communist Party. Mr. TAVENNER. But the only reason you have assigned for your withdrawal from the Communist Party in 1949 is the Korean war, which did not begin until nearly a year later. Now it is rather difficult for the committee, I am sure, to understand whether or not your reasons for withdrawing from the Communist Party are being given in good faith. Mr. CARLSON. Mr. Chairman, I was quite active in my union and in my shop as a good trade union member, and, to tie one thing with another, I don’t have anything to go by except that Korean war. I remember that was about the time.