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...attacked it. Last week, in the midst of other duties, Harry Truman implored U.S. citizens to shush inflammatory Palestine talk of all kinds "in the interests of this country, of world peace, and of humanity." But it might take more than the President of the U.S. to shush Ben Hecht...
...Herd-Loneliness. At 53, stocky Ben Hecht could look down the rungs of a long, golden ladder. He had left Racine, Wis. in his teens with the idea of becoming a violinist. He became a boy-wonder newspaperman (Chicago Daily News) instead. In 1921 he wrote an involved but honest novel, Erik Dorn, but soon found his real bent in writing plays (like The Front Page, co-authored with Charles MacArthur) and dashing off lush Hollywood scripts for $5,000 a week. "I was always able to make large sums of money without giving money any thought," Hecht says...
...when Hecht's ego compelled him to write A Jew in Love, a gargoylized caricature of a Jewish publisher, Hecht was called antiSemitic. But Hecht says: "I lived 40 years in my country without encountering anti-Semitism or concerning myself even remotely with its existence." Then, one day, a luncheon companion asked Hecht, "Do you mind talking about Jews...
...never occurred to me that my friend regarded me as a Jew," Hecht says...
Sandwiches v. Tommy Guns. The official Zionist movement was not stormy enough for Hecht. He preferred the Hebrew Committee of National Liberation, headed by blue-eyed Palestinian Peter Bergson. In the U.S., the Hebrew Committee is backstopped by something called the American League for a Free Palestine, of which Hecht became cochairman...