 Though claiming to never actively trying to recruit anyone, she admitted performing Party chores such as fund-raising and hosting the fortnightly Confidences Club meetings at her home, which were mostly for socializing.In April 1939, Caspary used the profits of a Hollywood story sale to travel to Russia to "see how people lived" in what the "Daily Worker" had described as a paradise.During her trip across Europe she was nearly persuaded from guilt to marry an Austrian Jew in order to get him to the United States, but due to a slowness in paperwork she was saved that fate.