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...published an article alleging Communist infiltration into book publishing and book reviewing. Cameron's name was high on the Legion's list of suspects. Last month, testifying before a Senate subcommittee, Louis Budenz, admitted ex-Communist, branded Cameron a party member. Last week the anti-Communist weekly, Counterattack, took...
With scattershot technique, it fired a broadside that was bound to hit at least part of the target. Listing 31 Little, Brown authors whom it accused of being "fellow-travelers and front supporters," Counterattack suggested that Little, Brown itself had become a "front" organization and that Cameron was largely responsible for the change...
Goaded into answering at last, the publishers responded with an open letter to the book trade. They pointed out many inaccuracies in Counterattack's charge (i.e., one of the accused authors wasn't even on their list, one had merely been a translator of two French novels, one the co-lyricist of a musical comedy, two authors had been dropped, three had yet to be published). The objectionable (to Counterattack) writers still in print, said Little, Brown, represented 4% of Little, Brown's list. The firm's letter failed to mention D. Angus Cameron...
Good Hunting. Cameron, by then, had some complaints about Little, Brown. He shrugged off as "hot air" the "Budenz lies" and the accusations of the "black-hand . . . newsletter, Counterattack." Little, Brown, said Cameron, was no longer living up to its policy of judging manuscripts by content alone. The company was considering "an author's beliefs or alleged beliefs...
With that, Angus Cameron, who two years ago shot the eighth largest caribou on record, got ready for a hunting trip in Colorado. Counterattack reloaded for more blasts at Communist influence on the book-publishing business...