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Johnson thought his not-so-subtle attempt at backdoor censorship would do the trick. In his resolution he had even lined up some examples of the men he was talking about. Topping the senatorial rogues' gallery: Hollywood's "Unfriendly Ten" (Screenwriters Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson et al.) and Italian Director Roberto (Open City) Rossellini, who, according to ex-Bergman Fan Johnson, had been "an apostle of Fascism ... an active Nazi collaborator ... a narcotic addict...
...Consultative Assembly voted a set of resolutions designed to give the proposed control authority more power, the British Labor group abstained. The quarrel between the British and French on the Schuman proposal flared up again when France's Paul Reynaud, shaking his finger at British Socialist Delegate Hugh Dalton, said: "We are told: 'Go ahead, you French, and build the House of Europe. If it is comfortable we will move into the room you have reserved for us. If it collapses we will attend your funeral . . .' Certain members of this Assembly think there...
...Labor Party, which had been divided on the issue of Western European federation. By the time the drafting committee got through with it, the small group favoring federation had been silenced. The finished document bore the arrogant, doctrinaire mark of its chief author, Minister of Town & Country Planning Hugh Dalton, whose bumbling indiscretions had gotten him and his government into trouble before...
Attlee tried valiantly to repair some of the damage. First, he effectively silenced Dalton, who had been trumpeting his views at press conferences. At week's end, under Dalton's chairmanship, Socialist delegates from nine countries assembled in London to consider...
Schuman Plan (the French Socialists, who support the plan, were so annoyed with their British comrades that they sent only one delegate). Dalton was unusually quiet. The conference broke up a day early, issued a polite communique which carefully skirted the real issues...