Mr. STENHOUSE. I think it was suggested to me there that this commission was being formed--the commission was already in effect, but that there was this job to do on this subcommittee of trade relations and that I should contact a Dr. Lokanath. He was an Indian economist. (At this point Representative Morgan M. Moulder returned to the hearing room.) Mr. STENHOUSE. I think that may have been the channel through which it came. I am not entirely certain. But I did contact him and got the appointment. Mr. TAVENNER. Did the person or persons with whom you conferred in the Institute of Pacific Relations know of your Communist Party membership? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you furnish any references to the Institute of Pacific Relations when you went there to confer on the subject of your employment? Mr. STENHOUSE. I think I probably did. You mean a sort of curriculum vitae. Mr. TAVENNER. The real purpose of my question is to find out whether or not you were recommended to the Institute of Public Relations by any person who knew you had been a member of the Communist Party. Mr. STENHOUSE. No. I went there entirely on my own initiative. Mr. VELDE. Did you know any of the defendants in the Amerasia case? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. Mr. VELDE. Had you ever met any of them? Mr. STENHOUSE. Not to my knowledge. Mr. VELDE. Do you know who it was from the Institute of Pacific Relations who first interested you in the United Nations? Mr. STENHOUSE. I was interested in the United Nations myself. Mr. VELDE. Naturally, I suppose you were. Was any one person at the Institute of Pacific Relations responsible for your employment by the United Nations? Mr. STENHOUSE. No. I went to the Institute of Pacific Relations as one of many, many sources for a new occupation. And in the office of the Institute of Pacific Relations I was told that there was this opening. So I applied to the United Nations. I have at home a file about that thick [indicating] of letters to many business firms that I wrote to and had interviews with. Mr. VELDE. Do you have any written memorandums or anything else in writing that would show your contact with the Institute of Pacific Relations at that time? Mr. STENHOUSE. I have nothing to hide about my Institute of Pacific Relations contacts. I was a subscriber to the Institute of Pacific Relations. I thought they were doing a good job of objective reporting on the Far East. I was interested in it because of my background. While I was in Washington, D. C., I went to several Institute of Pacific Relations meetings and discussion groups. It was only natural that that should be one place where I would go to find out if there was any firm or any organization that was associated with the Far East who would be interested in my background.