Break diplomatic and economic relations with Franco Spain, withdraw United States troops from China, and stop aid to Chiang Kai-shek, dictatorship, United States participation in worldwide disarmament, stop manufacture of atomic bombs and outlaw their use, abolish compulsory military training, remove from private industry development of atomic power to insure its peaceful use for benefit of all, restoration and extension of UNRRA, promote Big Three unity, carry through the denazification and demilitarization programs in Germany and Japan.
Those were the policies being advocated by the Communist Party at that time; were they not?
Mr. O’Connell. I wouldn’t know.
Mr. Tavenner. You would not know?
Mr. O’Connell. No. I presume—if you say so, they are. I don’t know what their particular program was at that time.
Mr. Tavenner. Did you become acquainted with Mr. Eugene V. Dennett, who at one time was vice president of the Washington Commonwealth Federation—in fact held that position while you were there?
Mr. O’Connell. He what?
Mr. Tavenner. He held the position of vice president when you moved to Seattle?
Mr. O’Connell. I can’t remember him at all. The only time I remember Dennett was coming to my office as executive secretary of the Democratic Party in the Vance Building, when he was in a military uniform and telling me that he had been vice president of the Washington Commonwealth Federation, but he would have been vice president a very short period of the Commonwealth Federation because I was there only from August of 1944 and if I remember correctly, the Commonwealth Federation was dissolved shortly after the November elections in 1944 and, of course, the only thing I can say about Dennett is I can remember him coming to the office of the executive secretary of the Democratic Party.
Mr. Tavenner. Were you aware that he was a member of the Communist Party?