Word: cameronism
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With scattershot technique, it fired a broadside that was bound to hit at least part of the target. Listing 31 Little, Brown authors whom it accused of being "fellow-travelers and front supporters," Counterattack suggested that Little, Brown itself had become a "front" organization and that Cameron was largely responsible for the change...
...novels, one the co-lyricist of a musical comedy, two authors had been dropped, three had yet to be published). The objectionable (to Counterattack) writers still in print, said Little, Brown, represented 4% of Little, Brown's list. The firm's letter failed to mention D. Angus Cameron, who had in the meantime quietly resigned...
Good Hunting. Cameron, by then, had some complaints about Little, Brown. He shrugged off as "hot air" the "Budenz lies" and the accusations of the "black-hand . . . newsletter, Counterattack." Little, Brown, said Cameron, was no longer living up to its policy of judging manuscripts by content alone. The company was considering "an author's beliefs or alleged beliefs...
When Little, Brown got around to announcing Cameron's resignation, they said it was caused by "a difference of opinion over editorial and administrative policies," and had nothing to do with political views. Cameron didn't agree. "If I stayed," he said, "I would have had to submit my outside offices for their approval ... a requirement that no free publishing house ought to require of its editor...
With that, Angus Cameron, who two years ago shot the eighth largest caribou on record, got ready for a hunting trip in Colorado. Counterattack reloaded for more blasts at Communist influence on the book-publishing business...