Mr. Stenhouse. I want to answer the question.
Mr. Velde. Or with Nationalists either. That was part of your duties.
Mr. Stenhouse. I asked for the definition because one of the men who was a consultant—and I didn’t appoint him—to the group that I was working with was the chief of the Foreign Exchange Department of the Bank of China.
Mr. Velde. Do you recall his name?
Mr. Stenhouse. Yes. Chi Chio Ting.
Mr. Velde. You certainly do have a good recollection as to some of these people, and you fail to recollect other people, chiefly Communists, with whom you were associated.
Mr. Stenhouse. China is my field. I remember him because he was related to an area that I have since had contact with. And I remember him, too, because shortly after—I think it was shortly after I left Shanghai or while I was still there—he went over to the Peking Government. And, as far as I know, that is the only contact that I had in Shanghai with anything that you could call a Communist. And I don’t know that he was.
Mr. Velde. Certainly I am sure, as Mr. Tavenner has very well stated, that you, being acquainted in China, would certainly have a lot better knowledge of communism in China than probably any of us here would. I would like to ask if you recognized any of those associated with you on the United Nations Commission in China as being what you consider Communists?
Mr. Stenhouse. The answer to that question is “No.”
This particular individual was acting only in the capacity of a consultant. And I don’t think he was actually a member of the United Nations. We were consulting with him and people like him because we were concerned with finance and foreign exchange and so on.