Word: kirkpatrick
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Congratulations to Kirkpatrick, Schultz, el al., for their courageous attack on Miss Jean Muir. They are setting a noble example for all patriotic Americans, which I, for one, am going to follow...
...refreshing to see honest, positive and effective action taken against vicious and deadly Communist infiltration of our American Republic. Such sincere, upstanding, red-blooded Americans as Benjamin Schultz and his Joint Committee Against Communism, together with Theodore Kirkpatrick and Counterattack [TIME, Sept.11], certainly should make all of us proud-especially when they base their actions on the good old American principle that a person is guilty until he proves himself innocent...
Members were obviously prepared to put the heat on advertisers who hired any of the 151 actors, writers and directors listed in Counterattack* or Red Channels -and presumably, anyone else who attracted the committee's suspicions. "We have intended no blacklist," explained Committeeman Kirkpatrick blandly, "but we have no objection to people taking action on the facts we have compiled...
...Then Kirkpatrick went on to explain just what it would take to get right with the committee again. He had once been forced to apologize publicly after Actor Fredric March and his wife Florence Eldridge had convincingly denied his charges that they were Communists. But he was not prepared to accept Actress Muir's denials so easily. "Times have changed since then," he said...
Suggested by Kirkpatrick as ways to get the committee's absolution: testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee; proving a complete break with all suspect groups; working for a "pro-American" organization...