Mr. Velde. Do you mean they spent all that time trying to change your mind about civil rights?
Mr. Dennett. Well, there was an intervening period in which I was away, you know. I was in the service.
Mr. Velde. That is right.
Mr. Dennett. There were several breaks there.
Mr. Tavenner. I believe you were in the service from 1943 practically through the year 1945.
Mr. Dennett. That is true.
Mr. Tavenner. I do not want you to go into great detail, but I believe the record should be a little clearer on the character of work in which your wife was actually engaged, which you say was authorized by the head of the Communist Party.
Mr. Dennett. A stranger approached her and asked her if she would submit reports to him about any bottlenecks that she found in war production. He advised her that he had been informed that she was a very well-informed person, knew a lot of people, and would be capable of doing this work. She didn’t know what to make of it. So she wrote to me while I was in the service asking my opinion, and I told her to hold off until I got back on furlough.
At that time I suggested to her that she take it up with the district leadership of the party, which she did, and got this approval.
The nature of that work she found——