Mr. O’CONNELL. I think Mr. Silberstein (Robert J. Silberstein), I wouldn’t remember correctly. It is hard for me to remember. I would say Mr. Silberstein actually probably prepared the actual application that was made to the foundation for a grant. Mr. TAVENNER. Did he confer with you about the matter? Mr. O’CONNELL. I can never even remember Bob Silberstein talking to me about a grant for the Lawyers Guild. As I remember the particular grant, it was made in connection with labor work that the guild was doing, and Mr. Martin Popper, as I remember it, was the one who actually made the presentation, at least I know he talked to me and I think to some of the other trustees. Mr. TAVENNER. The New World issue of March 25, 1948, reflects that Jerry O’Connell launched a series of three special forum programs at the Pacific Northwest Labor School to discuss our foreign policy and our fight for peace. Do you recall that? Mr. O’CONNELL. No; I don’t recall that. I know I never made any speeches at Seattle Labor School. Mr. TAVENNER. Did you have any connection with the presentation of a special forum program at the Seattle Labor School? Mr. O’CONNELL. I certainly cannot recall any. I don’t remember ever speaking at the Seattle Labor School or being involved in any forum. Was that a forum I was supposed to conduct? Mr. TAVENNER. The article says you launched a series of three forum programs. Mr. O’CONNELL. It says it is on foreign policy? Mr. TAVENNER. That the subject was Our Foreign Policy and Our Fight for Peace. Mr. O’CONNELL. I certainly don’t remember any such thing. Practically all the time I was in the State of Washington I was engaged either as executive secretary of the Democratic Party or was executive secretary of the Progressive Party and my particular work was in political organization and political work and I don’t want to say I did or didn’t but I certainly now don’t recall any such series of lectures. Mr. TAVENNER. Mr. O’Connell, you have advised us that you became chairman of the National Committee To Defeat the Mundt Bill during the year 1948. Mr. O’CONNELL. Yes; that is correct. Mr. TAVENNER. Were you aware of a special fund drive conducted by the Communist Party in 1947 for the purpose of fighting anticipated congressional action relating to the Communist Party? Mr. O’CONNELL. I had no knowledge of any such--what was it a fund? Mr. TAVENNER. Mrs. Blauvelt testified before the Committee on Un-American Activities within the past 3 weeks on that subject. She was a police detective for the city of New York and was a member of the Communist Party and served the New York City Police Department as an underground agent for a period of more than 8 years before her identity was discovered. Mrs. Blauvelt testified for nearly a week.