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ws a coanteston. Investigation developed that Stetnbect'’s farner wife, Carol, had registered as ao Comnuatat in Senta Clara County, Me It Paee la ans BFananher fi 7a2A thew ewan teteanrad an mo fanaa - ewe wg wre ew ree wee eS eee “Ss owns» rer Fey rere ewe SSF OS OSS ae ae + jn 12939. Accordtn,; to Carol, ahe repistered as @ Coununtst te see what would ha,pen aad to see whot the reaction would be fn o suGll town, but rezretted this move because {t reflected unfavorably on her husband. She anc others advises that Stetabeck was a recgtatered denocrat anc probably favored the Mee Deal but Ae had never been o Comaunist. Ww Prats investigation alse revealed thot Stetabeck “ eantpibuted artinoleas tn the Eovuaeher 3, 12396 and Anrit ? 7428 we ws a we ore =e 7. orww fseuesa of “Pacts ite eekly,” cited esa Conmuntat publication by the Coltfornta Comnittee on Un-dnerican Activittes. He alse subscribed to the “folly People’s Joric,™ weat coast Comnuatst Rewspaper, as af September 2533. Cy) fer Army Associates and friends of Steinbeck oc vised G-2 that he was Aonest, Joyal, petriotic, anc er excellent cnd sincere writer. Yhey stated that although he exercised poor disecretten duping biz earl: dave af weitino hy awaanrio¢inge mith Boma elements of the Communtst Forty, he wos not interested tn @duancing the cause of the Party but in gathering, motverial for hie writings on ceriatn social conciticns eristing in the Onited States at thet time. They reported that he wrote various orticles which were published by Comzuntst erjanizations becarse WH the economic uviexs expreassec were considered radical. However, Ae rejected Communistic polttical ard economtcal theortes rereatedly and dtecarced Ats assoctation with that elenuent mhen it heoaose an. orent that Ais arpeaetiics mas hatno maad ta =rr@= ase ower further tatercs@of the Furty. (0-2; 300-166288-2) eXuy fer Arm AFFILIATION b ITH COMVOINIST FRIXT ORGANIZATIONS: Durtng 1938, Stetnadeck granted the Stmon J. Lubia Soctety of Coltfornia, inc., permisston to republish hte pamphlet entitled “Their Blood Js Strong," a story of qhe migratory a, ricultural workers in California, which was ’ api. tnolly peblished in 79945. Ancopdine ta the Polifarnia we ey rtwweay Co ee ee a were & ewe te oe iy Ad -_ Committee on On-American Activittes, the Sinon J. “Lubta 5 Society, Inc., wos a Cormunist front for California agrartan penetration, erganized in the Fall of 1936 by Gnit 104 of the Professtonal Section ef the Comauntst Party. ( 61-7559-8-993) i