Mr. VELDE. Mr. Chairman, I think we ought to make it clear we have no intention of having the public press or anyone else feel that any of the persons you mention who were associated with you in your professional work at that time are connected in any way with the Communist Party or any of its functions. We have hitherto tried to make that perfectly clear. The mere fact that you mention a name of one of your associates should lead no one to believe that he is in any way connected with it or has been connected with the Communist Party or Communist Party activities. Mr. MOULDER. Did other employees in your section attend any of the meetings to which you have referred? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. MOULDER. In line with Congressman Velde’s suggestion the names mentioned by you in that connection will be stricken from the record. Mr. STENHOUSE. I want to make one clarification. In regard to this matter of references, I don’t want it on the record that I didn’t give any references. If they were required I suppose I gave them. But don’t remember now who I gave. (The witness confers with his counsel.) Another point, Mr. Chairman, in regard to this matter of remembering the names of the people who were at these discussion groups, there were not more than 3 or 4 meetings as far as I remember. There were very few in number. Mr. MOULDER. How many meetings did you attend while you were in Washington? Mr. STENHOUSE. Three or four; at the most, five; I can’t remember exactly. They are very limited. I am trying to live back in those days and pinpoint when it could have been and where they could have been. And I can identify in a vague way three locations. Mr. MOULDER. Were you issued a Communist Party membership card at any time while you were in Washington, D. C.? Mr. STENHOUSE. I don’t think so. Mr. MOULDER. But you still refer to them as Communist Party meetings? Mr. STENHOUSE. That is what I understood them to be. I am sure in my own mind now that I was just on the fringes of this thing, that---- Mr. MOULDER. Proceed, Mr. Tavenner. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you not describe the meetings in Washington as being the same type of meetings you attended in Los Angeles? Mr. STENHOUSE. I said they were similar. Mr. MOULDER. Doesn’t that mean the same type? What difference was there between the meetings you attended in Washington and those you attended in Los Angeles? Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, I suppose one difference would be that in Washington, D. C., to the best of my knowledge, all the people present were members of the union. Mr. MOULDER. Were they also all employees in the Department of Commerce? Mr. STENHOUSE. Right. Mr. MOULDER. Were any of them employees in your immediate section? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. MOULDER. The China Section of the Department of Commerce? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. MOULDER. Do you, of your own personal knowledge, know whether any of the persons attending those meetings were members of the Communist Party?