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...last witness apparently had no such desire to cooperate. Columbia Anthropologist Gene (The Races of Mankind) Weltfish refused to say whether she was ever a Communist, and she emphatically denied that she had recently accused the U.S. of using germ warfare in Korea. All she had done, she said, was to call a press conference and hand out an affidavit made by the Rev. Dr. James Endicott, chairman of the Communist-front Canadian Peace Congress. What did the affidavit charge? That the U.S. was using germ warfare in Korea. Did she know Dr. Endicott personally? No, but she "believed...
...Hollywood's top honor last year for her portrayal of the dumb blonde in Born Yesterday. In answer to a subpoena, Judy made an important personal appearance last March before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. Subject of the inquiry: her connection, for the past decade or so, with Communist-front organizations. In making the minutes public last week, the committee drew no conclusions, made no recommendations; but the session sounded as if Oscar-winning Actress Holliday was still skillfully playing the dumb blonde-this time for higher stakes. Excerpts...
Case said the report listed Schlesinger as being connected with a number of other organizations, which he said were neither Communist-front groups or supporters of such groups...
...Chaplin's right to re-enter the country (said one official: "That might prejudice our case"). But the press speculated on some reasons: the McCarran Act bars aliens from entering the U.S. on grounds of morals, or for membership or affiliation with Communist organizations. Chaplin has been cited as a sponsor for some Communist-front groups, and the noisy Chaplin-Joan Berry paternity suit, decided against the comedian (TIME, April 30,1945), might leave him open to a charge of "moral turpitude...
...jarring realism into his tough-guy roles -in such movies as They Made Me a Criminal, He Ran All the Way, Tortilla Flat. The critics cheered him, and Hollywood's pinkos took him in tow. Soon, Garfield was lending his name to all sorts of Communist-front crusades...