sentences:  After the Soviet invasion of Finland in November, 1939, he publicly condemned the Communists in an article for "The New Republic".During the investigations of suspected Communists in the 1950s, he refused to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities.After the end of the Spanish Civil War, Bates moved to Mexico, where he lived for a number of years, publishing "The Fields of Paradise" in 1940.