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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes necessary...
...deluded nonCommunists. Witness McCuistion's mother, crinkled Mrs. Dolly Crawford, declared that Joe Curran once told her just how Communists would take over the U. S. by passive infiltration into unions, Federal offices, etc. On the same day that Mrs. Crawford testified, Joe Curran sent the committee a letter insinuating that Martin Dies was a liar, asserting with a straight face that he knew of no Communist tie-ups in Red-ridden...
Simultaneously, the American Civil Liberties Union, in a letter to President Conant, said that "The barring of Earl Browder from speaking at Harvard teaches a deplorable lesson in democracy, a lesson unworthy of Harvard's heritage or American tradition...
Greene refused permission to use the New Lecture Hall if Browder spoke, but according to a letter to the Society any other speaker would be accepted as long as Browder, who is now under indictment for using passports under an assumed name, was not the subject of discussion...
...Your support of the policy I have maintained, with the approval and authority of the Corporation, by your agreement with the advice given in this letter, will, I think, strengthen the Iiberal position of the University, which is what we are all interested in," Greene wrote...