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_ Stuart said he agreed to become the first treasurer of the ‘New York Chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee when he recognized an effort by Communists to move into the leadership. Material Stuart furnished the Subcommittee showed that Attorney Victor Rabinowitz asked Joanne Grant to be secretary of the New York Chapter. | 7 | "My own feeling was that no one should be barred from membership on political grounds," Stuart said in an article. "But, at a time when the Committee had already started to be red-baited, it was quite destructive of its chance to have as an officer a woman known far and wide for her Communist oriented activities." | The witness said he quit as an officer of the New York Chapter after Richard Gibson, who had become head of Fair Play | following disclosures about Fair Play by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, burned the records of FFCC, "tT was treasurer of the New York Chapter," Stuart wrote in an article in the Independent. “"As treasurer I was a member of the executive board. But the destruction of the records had taken place without any meeting. Gibson had- talked with an attorney nemed Stanley Faulkner and then gone anto action. Only after the act, was: I informed." | | The Subcommittee introduced into the record advertiremen’s for a number of Stuart's publications, including such titles aa *Pieasure Was My Business,” "Diary of @ ‘Nymph, = "me Art and | Science of Love," "“mhe Fair Sex, @ gallery of female nudes. 'mransvestism,"” “The Marriage Cage and others. # #¢ #F #