Investigation of Communist activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 2

by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Mr. Tavenner. What is your present occupation?

Mr. Stenhouse. I am an insurance agent.

Mr. Tavenner. Have you read any of the testimony before this committee of General Willoughby who was G-2 on General MacArthur’s staff, which related to the development of communism in China?

Mr. Stenhouse. No.

Mr. Tavenner. General Willoughby documented considerable evidence before this committee regarding the activities of certain American citizens in China. My desire now is merely to ask you whether or not you observed any Communist Party activities on the part of American nationals in China?

Mr. Stenhouse. No.

Mr. Tavenner. And I refer particularly to the period 1928 and 1929 when you were in Shanghai.

Mr. Stenhouse. I didn’t know anything about it. I was a businessman.

Mr. Tavenner. Have you at any time been affiliated with the Communist Party, and, if so, in what country or countries?

Mr. Stenhouse. During the war some 10 years ago I was a member of the Communist Party in this country.