At the end of the 3-month period I was appointed administrative assistant to the--I don’t know what his actual title was, but it was something like director of food and agriculture mission in China; a 3-month appointment again, and I worked in that capacity for about 3 months; I think until the end of September, when I was found to have some possibilities of tuberculosis. So I wanted to go back to the United States and get a thorough investigation of that, and I got a letter from the director of the mission there to the home office suggesting that I be given a permanent contract--not a permanent contract but a more long-range contract to go out under circumstances that would allow me to take my family out. However, on the way back from China I stopped here in Seattle and met some businessmen for whom I had done some work in my official capacity in the Department. They were pleased with the work I had done and they suggested that I join their firm in Seattle. Mr. TAVENNER. What was the approximate date of your return to the United States when you first became a resident of this community? Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, my return to the United States was about September or October of 1948. I went back to Washington---- Mr. TAVENNER. I understand that. But you told us about your return to the United States and stopping here in Seattle. Mr. STENHOUSE. You asked me when I first came here, and became a resident. There was a gap of a couple of months because I went back to Washington to pick up my family, and we actually came here to Seattle as residents in January of 1949. Mr. TAVENNER. Have you resided in Seattle since that date? Mr. STENHOUSE. Yes, sir. Mr. TAVENNER. What is your present occupation? Mr. STENHOUSE. I am an insurance agent. Mr. TAVENNER. Have you read any of the testimony before this committee of General Willoughby who was G-2 on General MacArthur’s staff, which related to the development of communism in China? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. TAVENNER. General Willoughby documented considerable evidence before this committee regarding the activities of certain American citizens in China. My desire now is merely to ask you whether or not you observed any Communist Party activities on the part of American nationals in China? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. TAVENNER. And I refer particularly to the period 1928 and 1929 when you were in Shanghai. Mr. STENHOUSE. I didn’t know anything about it. I was a businessman. Mr. TAVENNER. Have you at any time been affiliated with the Communist Party, and, if so, in what country or countries? Mr. STENHOUSE. During the war some 10 years ago I was a member of the Communist Party in this country. Mr. TAVENNER. In this country? Mr. STENHOUSE. And that is the only affiliation that I have had.