Mr. O’Connell. The Progressive Party wasn’t organized until 1948.
Mr. Tavenner. That would indicate that it must then have been about 1948 or 1949 when this occurred.
Mr. O’Connell. My distinct feeling—I don’t know what he may have done, but my distinct feeling about Mr. Stone is he was not a member of the Communist Party as long as I knew him.
Mr. Scherer. Do you know what Stone is doing today?
Mr. O’Connell. No, I really don’t.
Mr. Scherer. The last contact you had with him then was, as you said, 1949?
Mr. O’Connell. I would say, I think the last contact I had with him was in 1948.
Mr. Scherer. Do you know what his activities were following 1948?
Mr. O’Connell. No; I really don’t. I haven’t kept up with him. I think—well, I know at the time he was writing some stories, children’s stories, or something of that kind. He was talking about it.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you select Stone as the publicity man for the National Committee To Defeat the Mundt Bill?