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UP, Salt Lake Telegram, Salt Lake City, Utah, Sept. 10, 1941.
SENATE SUBCOMMITTEE OPENS
INQUIRY INTO FILMS
HEAR NYE – Left to right, Senator McFarland (D) Ariz.,
Chairman D. Worth Clark (D.) Ida.; Senator Tobey
(R.) N. H.; Senator Brooks (R.) Ill.; J. H. Hazen (rear with
cigar,) vice-president of Warner Bros.; Harold
Gallagher, assistant to Wendell Willkie, and Willkie listen
attentively as Senator Nye (R.) N. D. (not in picture)
charges films seek British victory for profit as Senate subcommittee
hearing gets underway.
(...) AP Wirephoto, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10, 1941.
AP, Associated Press.
& IN A HUDDLE AT SENATE
WAR PROPAGANDA HEARING
As the subcommittee met for the first time in Washington
yesterday. Left to right: Chairman D. Worth Clark,
Wendell L. Willkie, who is representing the movie producers;
Senator Ernest W. McFarland, and J. Robert Rubin,
vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
(...) Associated Press Wirephoto, New York Times,
Sept. 10, 1941
& HANDSHAKE BEFORE BATTLE – Wendell L. Willkie, left,
and Senator Gerald P. Nye shook hands yesterday as Senate
Interstate Commerce subcommittee began inquiry
of reports of war propaganda in movie industry in which
Willkie attacked Nye.
(...) AP Wirephoto, Los Angeles Times, Sept. 10, 1941.
AP, Associated Press.
& Fie, Fie, Senator Nye
MISS DIANA MORGAN, the playright, sends me this verse
from Ealing Studios, where she is working on scripts:
it is inspired by the Isolationist complaints of propaganda
in Hollywood:
Said Senator Clark to Senator Nye:
„Charlie Chaplin‘s a dirty spy.
In spite of age, and in spite of sex
Victor Saville is Madame X.
They say that this man Alex Korda
Has a school for spies on the Mexican border,
And Alfred Hitchcock, I sweat, will soon
Be hoisted as Hollywood‘s barrage balloon.“
(...) THE LONDONER‘S DIARY, Evening Standard,
London, England, Sept. 11, 1941.
„Never thought well enough of the United States“
Editorial content. „MOVIE CLIQUE SEEKING
WAR, SAYS SENATOR
Theaters Become ,Mass Meets,‘ Missourian Holds
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 (UP) – Senator Bennett C. Clark
(D, Mo.), charged before a senate investigating group
Wednesday that a ,handful‘ of men have transformed the
17,000 American theaters ,into 17,000 daily and
nightly mass meetings for war.‘“ (...)
„Clark said United Artists was dominated by Alexander
Korda, a Hungarian who is British subject, and
Charlie Chaplin, ,who has lived in this country for 30 years,
made a great fortune here and never thought well
enough of the United States to become a citizen.“ (...)
UP, United Press.
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