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...case against Collier's Bucklin Moon [TiME, April 27] is the most exasperating of a long list of outrageous indignities. Do we Americans realize the dire condition of intellectual restraint now exercised in this country of ours? Not only can every crank discredit the object of his disfavor by labeling him a Communist, but it has now become extremely unwise for anyone to go to the victim's defense...
...Collier's editor than as the author of four books about U.S. Negroes, which have won him considerable critical acclaim as well as a Julius Rosenwald fellowship and the $2,500 George Washington Carver award. Moon, who is often mistakenly thought to be a Negro because of his writing, for ten years was an editor at Doubleday & Co.; six months ago he joined Collier's staff...
...Refusal. Last week Collier's Editor Roger Dakin called in Moon's boss, Fiction Editor MacLennan Farrell, told him of the letters of protest against Moon. He also showed him citations on Moon from the report of the House Un-American Activities Committee, which said that: 1) Moon had been a sponsor of the 1949 Communist-front Waldorf culture conference and was named in the Daily Worker as a member of a group organized by the fellow-traveling National Council of the Arts, Sciences & Professions; and 2) Moon's novel Without Magnolias had been mentioned...
...Editor Dakin (once a staffer on Manhattan's late, pinko PM) called in Moon and fired him himself. "I pointed out that the evidence against me was a little flimsy," said Moon, "and could easily be answered. Dakin just said that firing me would take the pressure off Collier's." If he was being fired for that reason only, Moon wanted a letter saying so. Wrote Dakin: "We have been eminently satisfied with your work in the fiction department." Moon insists that he has never been a Communist, that his name was not authorized...
...Collier's fiction staff promptly protested to Dakin in a memo: "We are all distressed that this could happen on a magazine that once had a reputation for independent judgment . . . The magazine has, in bowing so spiritlessly to pressure, publicly 'admitted' its 'guilt' and injured the reputation of a man who has been given no chance to prove his innocence." Said Bucklin Moon: "All I can do is, through a great deal of personal work and some money, try to get myself officially cleared. I'm not trying to be a martyr. But this...