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summer, during vacation he had taken a trip to Alaska on one of the fishing boats, one of the boats that was carrying people up to work in the Alaska canneries. There he had organized Communist party cells and things among them. This was all, you know, what he was supposed to do.

Several years had elapsed. A good many years had elapsed since that time, and I had forgotten what he had done, but he had earned his living in fairly reputable ways, and I think hadn't played any part in Communism since those early days. He had worked as a newspaperman somewhere in the West. He was an experienced newspaperman. He had experience in broadcasting. He'd had a post somewhere. So he was taken on, because he had technical qualifications. Somebody, of course, recommended him, I don't know who. So he'd gone overseas. He'd been working for the Government four or five years without any checks being made on him. They'd just got around to checking up on these newly appointed people about that time, so he was in trouble, and he came to see me about it.

He finally told me. He said, “Yes, sure, I was that during my collegiate days. I came out of college in the midst of the Depression and I thought it was terrible, and I thought the Communists had the answer, and I was hotheaded and I thought this was all that could be done, and everybody else was so foul and deceiving, and they were covering up