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...Paris, a couple of dozen writers and painters-including Jean Cocteau, Louis Aragon, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse -dutifully responded to a cable from Charles Chaplin asking them to protest the deportation* to Germany of Hollywood Composer Hanns Eisler. To the Paris Embassy the celebrities sent their message: please let Eisler use his visa to France, where "we expect [him] to write the music for the film Alice in Wonderland." Said Cocteau: "If Eisler's music is good, who cares about his politics? . . . Politics are dirty. Art is pure...
...unwelcome guests: Novelist Howard (Freedom Road) Fast, an editor of the Communist New Masses; Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed U.S. Comintern boss; Arnold Johnson, legislative director of the Communist Party; Carl Marzani, dismissed by the State Department for concealing his Communist card...
...Citizens of America," announced that they would allow ten minutes for the meeting to break up. Then they withdrew. Arrival of the police kept them from returning. ¶ Coughing, stamping and singing God Bless America, a group of veterans forced adjournment of a Communist rally in Bridgeport, Conn. Gerhart Eisler was the scheduled speaker...
Lela Rogers, busy mother of Ginger, discussed her suspicions of Communist hanky-panky in the movies. As an example she cited None But the Lonely Heart, a film full of "despair and hopelessness," with background music by Communist Hanns Eisler which was "moody and somber throughout . . . in the Russian manner." (Cracked a bystander: "It's a good thing Poe didn't write for the movies.") There was also a scene where a son refused to work in his mother's second-hand store and "squeeze pennies out of little people poorer than...
These statements were his undoing last week. Under persistent questioning, Eisler finally admitted that he had joined the German Communist Party in 1926, that he had visited Moscow at least three times, that he had once been the guiding spirit behind the Comintern's "international bureau of music." The conclusion was obvious that, whether now or in 1940, he had perjured himself. The committee therefore ended its three-day show by demanding that the Department of Justice 1) prosecute the composer for perjury, and 2) start deportation proceedings against...