Mr. STENHOUSE. Why I don’t know how you identify that exactly. I don’t recall seeing anybody’s card. Again, there was some sort of dues payment.
Mr. MOULDER. Do you recall hearing any one of them say that they were members of the Communist Party?
Mr. STENHOUSE. I can’t remember now whether they did or not. I was there and I thought I was some sort of a member, and I just assumed--Maybe I shouldn’t assume it. But I just assumed they were.
Mr. TAVENNER. Did you pay dues in this organization or in this group?
Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, again, it was somewhat the same arrangement as before. There were books to be bought and some sort of dues arrangement.
Mr. TAVENNER. To whom did you pay the dues?
Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, I don’t remember who the individual was. The money was just--somebody said “Well, here are the books.” And the money was put on the table.
Mr. TAVENNER. How long did you remain a member of that group or attend meetings of that group?
Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, that is the question that you asked before, and, as I told you, I find it very difficult to pinpoint the time. I think I can limit it to somewhere near the end of 1945 because of the fact that I didn’t get there until June and I had the operation, and then my family came out, and we were preoccupied with getting into a house and things of that sort. And I think it was--I was out of it by the early part of 1947.
Mr. TAVENNER. So that you continued until the early part of 1947?
Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, I say it was somewhere in that area. And I can’t remember.
Mr. TAVENNER. Will you tell the committee, please, the circumstances under which you stopped attending these meetings?
Mr. STENHOUSE. Well, the Communist publications that we were studying seemed to be overready to excuse the Soviet Union and criticize our country, and this didn’t jibe with the ideas that I had had about the situation during the war. And I just stopped going and nobody ever tried to get me back in or approached me in any way.
Mr. TAVENNER. You have said that you cannot recall the names of any of these people or give any more descriptive information than you have because of the lapse of time, and the fact that you are separated now by long distance from the place you were then.