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...relative obscurity, almost completely over-shadowed by the colossus of total war effort, a basic concept in the long term meaning of that effort is under fire. In Minneapolis on December 1 seventeen men and one woman were convicted of conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the U. S. Government. The case, now on its way to the Supreme Court, has resolved itself into a test of the constitutionality of the Smith Act of 1940, which makes it a penal offense to discuss the over-throw of the government, or to criticize the conduct of the armed forces. Stated...
...basic fact, which individual doctrines must not be allowed to obscure, is that the Smith Act is a denial of the right of free speech. The instance of the Minneapolis convictions is merely a test of the constitutionality of this act, and as such the decision of the Minneapolis Federal Grand Jury should be reversed when the case reaches the Supreme Court...
...need sound plays today on the problems confronting us. But we will not get them if the playwrights continue to do as they have done. They must re-evaluate their approach, seeking to come at the basic problems through a level of universal meaning, not a meaning based on the level of day-to-day through and action...
...nine plays, to be called "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed." He has the true artist's contempt for problems of the moment; his sole concern is with humanity in all time. To many critics this seems a selfish and unpatriotic occupation when our nation is fighting for its basic principles. Particularly does it seem so to those playwrights like Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, and Robert Sherwood, who have dedicated themselves to what we term "propaganda" writing. This is a necessary outlet for artistic creation, too, one which seems of more worth at the moment than that of the ivory...
...miscellaneous. More specific descriptions (size, type, etc.) were assigned letters too. DAB, for example, means D for milling machine, A for knee-type, horizontal, universal, B for No. 2 light-type-all of which is plain English to the man who owns one. The other four basic facts are similarly keyed with numerals and other letters...