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The Truth About the Hollywood Ten
This is a fascinating, if long, treatment of the HUAC and the 'Hollywood Ten.'From the Article: A more balanced view from a participant in the terrible events that began in October 1947 came from Patricia Bosworth, the daughter of Bartley Crum, one of the lawyers for the Unfriendly Ten. Crum was one of only two of the seven lawyers on the Ten's defense team who were not themselves members of the Party. Bosworth says that her father vigorously defended people as long as he possibly could afford it financially, because of his deep allegiance to the principles of the First Amendment. But the experience also made him very wary of the American Communists, because they were not in fact independent individuals but were men under stern Party intellectual discipline. He found them continually deceptive as to their intentions and motives. Crum was repelled by the Communists' "rude, plodding dogmatism, their habit of secrecy," and that included the behavior of the Party lawyers assigned to work with him on the case. It is Bartley Crum's conundrum which summarizes the issue addressed in this paper. Posted by: badanov 2005-04-18 |
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