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Mistrust. What they are charged with is (among other things) a lack of faith. They all have the same insincerity, the same distrust of anyone else's sincerity. They have the same raw ambition, the same bitter kiss-my-foot contempt for each other. They all have the same childish fretfulness of mind...
Last week when it went under, the New Masses took a little comrade along with it. Mainstream, a literary quarterly that had shared Author Howard Fast* (who is under a three-month sentence for contempt of Congress), Screenwriters John Howard Lawson and Dalton Trumbo (who were charged with contempt in the House Un-American Activities Committee hearing) and others, was suspending after a year of life. New Masses Editor Joseph North had already jumped aboard the Daily Worker (as staff writer). Most of his associates (e. g., Richard O. Boyer, New Yorker writer) had other ways of making a living...
...Francisco, Lawyer Bartley Crum, one of the attorneys for the ten Hollywood writers cited for contempt by Congress, resigned as a P.C.A. national vice chairman...
...fellow whites didn't fare much better. He was charmed by the Lake George country of New York State, but found it "occupied by a race of boors about as uncouth, mean, and stupid as the hogs they seem chiefly to delight in." He reserved his greatest contempt for Englishmen. Looking down from the cupola of St. Paul's in London: " 'Now,' thought I, 'I have under my eye the greatest collection of blockheads and rascals, the greatest horde of pimps, prostitutes and bullies that the earth can show. . . . Was there ever such a cursed...
Most officials who banned the speeches were unwilling to say in one-syllable words that Communists as such were unwelcome. Eisler, Marzani and Fast were refused ostensibly because they had been convicted of perjury or contempt. Said an editorial in Campus, student newspaper at City College: "[The ban] insults the student body by casting doubt on its ability to evaluate, analyze and form decisions...