Mr. O’CONNELL. No; I never did actually as a trustee. We had the organization report to us from time to time how they were expending the funds and what they were doing, but I couldn’t personally take any one of those grants and tell you actually what the report was. Mr. TAVENNER. The American Youth Congress has been cited as a subversive and Communist organization by Attorney General Tom Clark on December 4, 1947, and September 21, 1948, under a citation by Attorney General Francis Biddle September 24, 1942, and also, May 28, 1942, it was stated in the citation that-- It originated in 1934 and has been controlled by the Communists and manipulated by them to influence the thought of American youth. It was cited by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities June 29, 1942, January 3, 1939, January 3, 1941, and again on March 29, 1944, in which it was stated that it was one of the principal fronts of the Communist Party and prominently identified with the White House picket line under the immediate auspices of the American Peace Mobilization. Do you know whether Jack R. McMichael was the national chairman of the American Youth Congress? Mr. O’CONNELL. I couldn’t recall--the name doesn’t mean anything to me. Mr. TAVENNER. Did he play any part in the solicitation of these grants? Mr. O’CONNELL. As far as I was concerned, he didn’t at least to me. If his name was on the stationery, I got a copy of the application and all that, but---- Mr. TAVENNER. I am not certain that he was its president at the time those grants were made, but he may have been. Mr. O’CONNELL. I don’t know. Mr. TAVENNER. During the same period, according to the committee’s information, grants totaling $3,250 were made to the Federated Press. Mr. O’CONNELL. That is correct. Mr. TAVENNER. And subsequently increased to a total of $29,200. Mr. O’CONNELL. I don’t know whether those totals are correct, but I know grants were made consistently to the Federated Press. Mr. TAVENNER. Were the grants sufficiently large to make these figures within reason? Mr. O’CONNELL. I would say they are. They never got a large grant each year. I think they got small grants like $3,500 or something of that kind. It could have totaled $29,000 over the years. Mr. TAVENNER. That organization was cited on March 29, 1944, by the Special Committee on Un-American Activities as a Communist-controlled organization financed by the American Fund for Public Service and the Robert Marshall Foundation, both principal sources of funds for Communist enterprises. Mr. O’CONNELL. There are a lot of conclusions drawn there that need proof. Mr. TAVENNER. I think we are proceeding to prove it right now.