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.
Did anything occur in 1946 or 1947 which would have served to refresh your recollection as to who these individuals were?
Something that would have called this matter very definitely to your attention and would have impressed itself on your memory. Do you recall anything of an unusual character having occurred?
Mr. Stenhouse. I suppose you are referring to the fact that I was investigated or questioned by the FBI.
Mr. Tavenner. That is right.
Mr. Stenhouse. It may have recalled their names to me then, but it doesn’t now.