LEGION'S ANTI COMMUNIST FIGHT HURTS MOVIE PRODUCERS WHO LOVE REDS

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• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2013
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: April 4, 1952
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Legion's Anti-Communist Pigilt Hurts
Movie Producers Who love ftfeai
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By FULTON LEWIS,. JR_
WASHINGTON. April 4.?Eric
Johnston, who vaciliates between
doing choreS for the Truman ad-
ministration and ,...!.-,
being boss of
the Motion Pic-
tur.a....4.40.4aviesida4a.
ot. America. is
taking Fli3lTy-
t5 00 d ti mier-
cround in its
fight against
Comm trnists
if any.
Johnston. a
few days ago. ?
rallied a num- LEWIS
hei. of Hollyv,00d movie moguls
ynto a secret powwow, for the pur-
nose of putting the heat on the
American Legion's national com-
mander, nal ? who has
eateourage e esnon s anti-Com-
munist fight. That. fight now in-
cludei;4he piettiting of a-Washing-
ton nthtiori picttire house for,pre- ?
senting, a Hollywodd lispietleaded
with left-wingers and worge. This
is the Legion's first effort to picktt
a theater and it hasdolPastort and
his, bosses grtiwingvn their fitsgei.:.
nails. '? . . -
One other feason for lohnstcin
momentarily abandoning the. fair
deal for ?the job he gets paid for,'
is that some movie producers are
getting slightly daft over the in-
tensity of Howard Hughes' anti-
Communist fight.
Hughes, boss of the huge RKO
studio, is beginning to clip Com-
munists off the payroll at an
alarming rate. Right now an ex-
employe of RKO, Paul Jarrico, is
suing Hughes because he refused
. to allow Jarrico's name to appear
on a film after Jarrico refused to
answer the 564 question'about his
.iiteged Corniatiniq affitfations in
testimony before congressional in-
S e,tigators.
Hughes has taken the FBI and
1 vother gosernment agencies and
congressional committees at their
word. He thinks Communists and
MOSCOW stooges . who have done
, ever thing ,except actually join the
piirl, arc dangerous to the na-
tion's security. He has vowed to
bounce them when he finds them
' in his shop which is more than
most of the other -studios have
done. In fact, it is almost unpre-
cedented. Several of the notorious
Hollywood ten were fired, but in
name only. Actually, they were
allowed to .go on writing movie
scripts,,.ifr sQte" cases, by using the
. simple substerfuge. of another
name.
The Legion commander didn't
. knuckle 'under. In fact, the Le-
gion is considering an expansion
I 'W. its picketing activities, since
j .t,his hits the producers who !bye
i die,iltids ';'and.-- 'their playmates
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right where if hurts-- in the
pocketbook.
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THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
,lias borrowed one of 'Maj. Gen.
Harry Vaughan's deep freezes to
store a hot potato. tossed to it by
the McCarran - internal security
subcommittee. It involves John P.
Davies, who does Secretary of
State Dean Acheson's thinking on
Far Eastern affairt. Davies was
recently cleared of security charg-
es by the State department after
being suspended .along with f ar
Eastern Expert 0. Edmund Clubb.
Clubb quit ?after Aeheson said he
was clean as a whistle, but this
was only half of the story. Ache-
son didn't mention that the State
department's loyalty board kad
found Clubb a security 'risk, and
that Acheson . rought back a re-
ell
k ' torn V tbc
tired dip si,. . specific pur-
pose of*0 that &else%
' Myles, . Mg ore the
..hfolGstriii4 ' :'-desaitil
that be ever wanted to let a
string of Comtnunista itibi th the
',.. ce tg*CY. A
Tortner-em;-"-IIn1911"rfrftIrrPC.7 I-Yie
Munson, a' 'w York 4ft? pub-
lisher, testified otherwise. It is
a pat exathple 'of lying by-some?
body before a' congressional com-
mittee. go McCarran skipped the
record to Justice, to see which one
was playing fast and loose with thilt
truth. That was several weeks
ago. Munson would like to drop
in on a grand jury and tell his
story, but the Justice department,
when asked about the case, hasn't
done a thing except act embar-
rassed.
,
THE STATE ,DEPARTMENT
now has four employes under in-
vestigation as loyalty . suspects.
The strange thing about It is that
if the loyalty ,board shauld, find
against the four, it will make A
total of 57 "turned up" as Com-
munist sympathizers since Senator
Joseph R. McCarthy first started
his attack on the department.
You'll recall that the senator 6 aid
there were 57 questionable charac-
ters in the State department.
Recent executive session testi-
mony before a Senatesubcomtnit-
tee revealed the facts concerning
the 57. Conrad Snow, head of
Acheson's loyalty board, had to
make a number of embarrassing
confessions On behalf of the seers-
taryeof'state. , It hurt. The toy-
!
.alty review board says the' De-
corum& of State has AVM' fired
anyone for'lliSloyalW. 'Sties,* says
the 57 were "tamed up." What
the secret IsIrthony 'is made flub=
lie, I thityt you'll find Mt 'Menet
"turned law( l'hus Sao" and '
the StAte.. department illeill :tom
clean wititus and,* kiyaitY W.,..
view board.
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