Word: communists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book is much more than an indictment of the Communist system. It is, just as much, an indictment of world-savers and social engineers, the true believer and the legislator of morality; an indictment as much of any political system which seeks to reform the world from the top or bottom, and ignores the basic ingredient and the basic problem...
There has, however, been no faltering on Western determination that Berlin must not become a "free" city. Such a situation would be the prelude to a communist controlled Berlin, for under almost any pretext--perhaps disorders caused by their own agents--the Soviet-assisted East Germans could sieze control entirely. But while the West's resistance to the free-city proposal deserves commendation, its failure to suggest alternate schemes is unfortunate for Germany...
...supplying the Communists with credit to buy capital goods, the West would be putting another nail in the coffin of freedom. It would 1) permit a Communist industrial speedup that would enable them to beat (with their usual subsidies) Western bloc quotes in export markets hitherto untouched by them; 2) free more money for the U.S.S.R. to lend at less-than-cost interest rates to uncommitted neutrals, thereby winning favor and using them up economically. Yes, trade with the Communists, but restrict the goods to food and consumer items...
...name of pius Aeneas calls to mind that of the immortal poet (70-19 B.C.) of whom it was written: "To be a Christian in Vergil's day was like being a Communist today." Ah, well, perhaps it is the wave of the future...
What finally flushed Trumbo was a vote by the academy two days earlier to drop the anti-Communist rule as "unworkable and impractical.'' Main reason: virtually certain Oscar nomination this year of The Defiant Ones. One of its coauthors was Nathan E. Douglas, who in 1953 pleaded the Fifth under his legal name of Ned Young during a House hearing. While Douglas-Young was thus ineligible for an Oscar. Co-Author Harold Jacob Smith had no such record. After a heated debate, the academy voted to leave blacklisting solely to producers: "The proper functioning of the academy...