the last few minutes when, for the first time, you pleaded your constitutional privilege. I am amazed and shocked because it indicates at least there is some place in your experience within the last few years when something arose in connection with the Communist Party in our own country that makes you feel it your duty to yourself to plead the amendment. I am always shocked when men with fine educations and opportunities to serve the country find themselves in a position where manifestly your only justification in pleading the amendment is it might incriminate you to tell the facts and answer the questions, frankly and fully. If you are another one of those men who has been tied up in any way with the Communist conspiracy, why in heaven don't you get out of it? I am not even inferring that you were a member because, as I understand it, there is no inference merely because a man in good faith pleads the amendment. I am frank to say to you that I think our information indicates pretty well that you had pretty close connections with the preparation for, and shipment of these American men and women to Spain, and that the Communist Party was pretty closely identified with it, also. Then, with you pleading the amendment, as you did, the last minute, it cannot help but leave a big question mark in my mind. I just want to repeat, if you have found yourself in that environment, why in heaven don't you get out of it? I realize that there is no opportunity for you and I to discuss it here, but I would be less than frank as an American Congressman if I did not thus speak to you. Thank you, Counsel. The witness is excused, Mr. Tavenner. (Whereupon, at 4 p. m., the committee recessed, subject to call.) INDEX Alexander, Gabriel N. Alston, Chris_. Anderson, Jack. Arnold, George_ Belson, Irving Charles_. Dudley, James__ Emspak, Julius__ Furay, Mort- Hathaway, C. A.. Hupman, Melvin Jacobs, Julia. INDIVIDUALS Page 175 60 120 104, 106, 192 189 111 189 174, 175 178 60 213 208-210 56-71 (testimony), 153, 196 190 182 167, 176 20, 43, 51, 56, 71, 91 47 82 175 25, 75, 92, 93, 155 189 22, 26, 36, 38-40, 42, 44, 46, 57, 60, 178 178 29, 30 97 20-56 (testimony), 72, 93, 153 Johnson, Elmer__- Jourdain, H............. Kelly, Charles_ Kirkendall, Kermit M. Lacey, Virgil____ Lamb, Leonard.... Lawrence, H.......... Lawson, John_. Lendrum, Frederick C------ Lunet, Andre............... Mann, Thomas__. 141 60 28, 32 175 171 178 189 208 142 149 46 50 25 19, 50, 60, 61, 158-200 51 166 192 Abraham Lincoln Battalion__. American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born. American Youth for a Free World__ Civil Rights Congress.. 171 American Committee to Survey Trade Union Conditions in Europe__ 111 37, 38, 60, 145, 148, 154 154 154 Committee to Win Amnesty for the Smith Act Victims___ 154 Indiana - 62 190, 191 139, 159, 180, 195 58, 59, 73 56, 58, 59 110 212 Michigan: Detroit, Vickers Club---- Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, United Local 905. Local 931-- International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. 112, 131, 133, 139, 140, 142, 143 Motion Picture Artists Committee To Aid Spanish Democracy. Ohio State Committee on Un-American Activities___ Stockholm Peace Appeal. (See World Peace Appeal.) 212 154 60 35, 36, 60, 154 24 182 181 World Peace Appeal (popularly referred to as the Stockholm Peace Appeal (or Petition)) ---- Young Communist League---. |