Mr. Stenhouse. I am willing at any time to tell you if any particular individual in my recollection was at those meetings.
Mr. Tavenner. Will you tell the committee, please, how you became employed in the United States Department of Commerce in Washington.
Mr. Stenhouse. Well, as I indicated, after I was obliged to have my hernia operation and get out of the defense work that I had been doing I sought occupation in a number of places. And somewhere along the line somebody brought my qualifications in the Far East to Congressman Ellis Patterson, and he referred it to Henry Wallace, and the appointment was made on that introduction.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you finally become head of your Section in the Department of Commerce?
Mr. Stenhouse. Chief of the Section.
Mr. Tavenner. Was that the Section dealing with China?
Mr. Stenhouse. That is right.
Mr. Tavenner. Did your activities in the Department of Commerce have anything to do with known Communists in China?
Mr. Stenhouse. No. The work that I was doing was related to the rehabilitation of trade. We were answering the inquiries of businessmen relating to regulations and economic conditions in China and the Far East. We prepared articles for the Foreign Commerce Weekly and conducted an economic analysis of the possibilities of reopening trade.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you tell the committee that you attended Communist Party meetings in the city of Washington?