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eae pee The news article quoted Sinatra's answer to his listing by the Committee as follows: "This unfair and unjustified attack gives every American a good reason to be critical of the Tenney Committee. This statement is the product of liars, and liars to me make very un- American leaders. tAnd furthermore, if they don't cut it out, I'll show them how much an American can fight back--even of it's against the state~if the American happens to be right. Nand I'm right, not Left, Mr. Tenney." "New York Times", June 9, 1949, article on page 5, column 1, captioned "Hundreds Named as Red Appeasers--California's Tenney Committee Lists Actors, Musicians and Others as 'Line' Followers", filed in Unit 2 of the Records Section. Washington Star*, June 9, 1949, pag fhe final 1949 report of the California Senate Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities sets forth the following citations which it is stated, Frank Sinatra has denounced but never refuted or repudiated: ‘taccepted award at dinner of American Youth for Democracy}; guest of honor and award recipient at an AYD dinner; Vice-Chairman, Holly- wood Independent Citizens Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions, a Communist front. (100-15252-41, Encl., page 2990) At a meeting on January 25, 1949, of the Hollywood Motion Picture Film Council, Dore Schary of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios stated that Frank Fay, stage actor, had attacked Communism in the Motion Picture Industry at a "recent" public meeting in Boston at which time Fay had named actors Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra as being Communists or Communist fellow travelers. ‘Schary attempted to discredit Fay's reliability and took the position that such comments were hurting the industry and urged the Council to come to the defense of Kelly and Sinatra. Others present at the meeting took issue with Schary's proposal on the basis that everyone knew that Hollywood was badly infiltrated and it did not make any difference whether certain persons were actual members of the Communist Party or not-one was just as dangerous as the other and should be cleaned out of the industry.