Mr. Tavenner. In this country?
Mr. Stenhouse. And that is the only affiliation that I have had.
Mr. Tavenner. I am not asking you now about your own affiliation, or indicating that I believe you were affiliated with the Communist Party in China, but we are anxious to have any information you have regarding Communist Party activities in China.
Mr. Stenhouse. I haven’t any information, Mr. Tavenner. When I left China in 1940 I only had a very vague idea about what was going on there.
Mr. Tavenner. Let me put the question to you this way because it is a very broad subject.
General Willoughby testified before this committee that the form of organization of mass organizations in China from 1929 on was virtually identical with what we have found in this country since the early and middle thirties, that is, in working through mass organizations or front organizations, as we frequently call them in this country.
Did you observe any activity of that kind?
Mr. Stenhouse. No, and I wouldn’t have done it because I was living in the international concessions in watertight compartments where we associated, except in business, with Europeans and Americans. I am somewhat—what was going on in the interior of China and in Chinese politics I was somewhat abysmally ignorant of in those days.
Mr. Tavenner. It has been demonstrated that Americans, people from this country took an active part in some of that organizational work in China.
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, I never did.