Evening star., 1941-09-10

one word on the side of the argu'
nent against war Is heard
That is because the moving pic
ture industry is a monopoly con-
trolled by half a dozen men anc
because most of those men are them
selves dominated by these hatred:
and are determined, in order tC
wreak vengeance on Adolph Hitler
ferocious beast, to plunge this
Nation into war on behalf of an
other ferocious beast apparently
a refernece to Premier Stain oi
Russia And, unless they are re-
strained, unless the people of this
country are at least warned about
them, they will plunge it into war
and, if this country goes to war ano
If million men pour out theil
blood on the battleflelds of the
world, then when it is all over ano
America is looking around for the
men responsible for this infamy ano
the roll of the guilty is called, the
names OF the men who rule this
industry must stand high on the
list before the bar of public opinion
in that angry America which will
inevitably follow the war.
And lest there be any doubt
about it. 1 will name some of them
now. Up near the top of the list l
will put the men who control the
Metro Goldwyn- Mayer Co. They
are the men who control LoeW's, Inc,
which Is headed by Mr.. Nicholas
Schenk in New York, who have
made one propaganda film after
another to rouse the hatreds of the
people of America.
Accuses Warner Bros.
Next to them I will put the
Warner Bros, who probably have
made more of these hate-producing
films than any other company in
America.
Next to them I will put Goth
Century Fox, of which Mr.. Joseph
NJ. Schenck was chairman until he
was sent to the penitentiary, and OF
which Mr.. Daryl Zanuck is now
head.
Later, at the request of Mr..
Willkie, Chairman Clark re-
marked that Mr.. Schenck had
been convicted of income tax
evasion, but had appealed and
was not in the penitentiaryD
Il should say, next TO them
though some might dispute their
claim to this distinction, is the
United Artists, which Mr.. Alex
ander Korda now heads-a Hun
garian who is a British subject and
which company is dominated by two
British subjects-Mr. Alexander
Korda and Mr. Charlie Chaplin,
who has lived in this country for 80
years and made great fortune
here. and never thought well enough
of the United States to become a
citizen. Both of them are using
the instruments of the screen which
they have in their possession to
poison the minds of the American
people to go to war for their re-
spective native countries.
The March of Time.
And high on the list, of course.
must go the March of Time and the
men who control that, chiefly Mr.
Henry Luce, who dominates that and
group of publications which are
plugging not merely for American
entry into the war, but for Ameri-
can abdication of her independence
to form union With Great Britain
There are plenty of others but
these will do for the moment. and
I hope these hearings will bring
out the names of others and their
responsibility before the bar Of
American public opinion.
"Of course these gentlemen would
like to sit back in their Offices in
Hollywood and New York unseen
and unnoticed and pull the fatal
strings which will plunge America
into war. There is no doubt that
as the law now stands they have
this powerful instrument in their
hands, and they can use it to
destroy this Nation and I do not
know how much we can do about it.
But, thank Heaven. there is at
least one thing we can do We can
drag them out in the open and let
them perform this outrage against
American unity, American freedom
and American security where the
whole world can see what they are
doing and who is doing it"
Cross examination of Senator
Clark by Senator Mcfarland, Dem
ocrat. of Arizona, the sole member
of the committee not belonging to
the isolationist group, developed
that Senator Clark, like Senator Nye,
his co-sponsor of the resolution de-
fnanding an investigation of war
propaganda in the movies, had not
seen the pictures of which they
complain.
Couldn't Name Pictures.
Senator Mcfarland said to SEN
ator Clark
You say in your statement to
the committee that the Warner
Bros. have made more of these hate
pictures than any other producer.
What are they?"
Senator Clark replied that he did
not know, that he made the state
inent on information and belief"
i haven't gone to the movies.
especially since these propaganda
pictures were being put on" he said
"I am not going to see them"
Then you are just making these
charges on information and belief"
suggested Senator Mcfarland. do
you think that if the facts presented
in these pictures are true, they
should not be presented"
Senator Clark said he was not
trying to stop the presentation of
facts He added that he had seen
That Hamilton Woman" and that
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