Mr. MOULDER. Was the discussion group meeting a Communist Party meeting or merely affiliated with the Communist Party? Mr. STENHOUSE. I am as confused as you are about that. Mr. MOULDER. Do you know whether you were a Communist at that time? Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, to be frank about it, I believe I signed a Communist Party card at some time. I have a vague recollection of a card which had an American flag on it and some very patriotic phraseology about the war effort and the alliance between our country and the Soviet Union. It may have even had some words about the Communist Party on it. But it seemed to me entirely innocuous. In fact, again it appeared to be directed to the things I was interested in, in the war effort. Mr. MOULDER. Did you pay dues to the Communist Party after signing the Communist Party card? Mr. STENHOUSE. I believe there was some sort of dues structure, but I don’t remember now how it worked. There were these materials for sale at the meetings, and money changed hands. I don’t remember now how much of it was for books, how much of it was for dues. Mr. MOULDER. Over what period of time did you continue to participate in such meetings and in what you then considered to be Communist Party activity? Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, I find it hard to set the actual dates, but it was, I think, some time during the latter part of 1943 and 1944. Mr. MOULDER. And thereafter you have never in any way whatsoever participated in any Communist Party activity? Mr. STENHOUSE. That isn’t the truth, sir. Mr. MOULDER. What would you say? Mr. STENHOUSE. I also attended some similar meetings when I was in Washington, D. C. Mr. MOULDER. The committee will stand in recess until 2 o’clock. (Whereupon, at 12:03 p. m., a recess was taken until 2 p. m. this same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION, MARCH 19, 1955 Mr. MOULDER. The committee will be in order, please. TESTIMONY OF JOHN STENHOUSE, ACCOMPANIED BY HIS COUNSEL, JACK R. CLUCK--Resumed Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. Stenhouse, we were discussing the Communist Party branch or group of which you were a member in Los Angeles. Will you give the committee, please, the names of those who were associated with you in that group? Mr. STENHOUSE. I am unable to give you the names, Mr. Tavenner. It is a long time ago, and I have been trying to remember. As I indicated to you the other day, if you give me some ideas of whom you think were present, it might refresh my memory. Mr. TAVENNER. I believe I told you that we would try to present you with a list of persons who had been identified in the Los Angeles area as members of the Communist Party, but we do not have that list with us, and we are unable to present it to you now. We may do so later in an effort to refresh your recollection. (The witness confers with his counsel.) Mr. STENHOUSE. I am willing at any time to tell you if any particular individual in my recollection was at those meetings.