Every opponent in this thread bloviates as you do.....
Take the challenge: who did he injure that wasn't a communist agent or spy or proponent of the overthrowing of the United States.
Otherwise, you're simply another Pod Person, unable to process real facts.
Or....you can simply agree that that analysis is correct, and amble on.
Dalton Trumbo.
Wow....who'd ever thought you could pull that rabbit out of your.....hat?
Gee....did I make a mistake in challenging a well-educated guy like you: "who did he injure that wasn't a communist agent or spy or proponent of the overthrowing of the United States."
Hmmmm.....
Oh...wait!
You're just one of the herd, the Pod People who doesn't know whereof he speaks....aren't you?
1. . Trumbo was part of the anti-fascist Popular
Front coalition of communists and liberals in the late 1930s, at the time of the Spanish Civil War. The Popular Front against Nazism and Fascism was been torn asunder in August 1939 when the USSR signed a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Many party members quit the CPUSA in disgust, but the true believers parroted the party line, which was now pro-peace and against US involvement in WWII. Trumbo reportedly did not join the Party until 1943 and harbored personal reservations about its policies as regards enforcing ideological conformity. However, the publication of his anti-war novel "Johnny Got His Gun" in 1939 coincided with the shift of the CPUSA's stance from anti-Hitler to pro-peace, and his novel was embraced by the Party as the type of literature needed to keep the US out of the war. Trumbo agreed with the Party's pro-peace platform."
Dalton Trumbo - Biography
2. "
Appearing before HCUA (sic) in October 1947 with Alvah Bessie, Herbert J. Biberman, Lester Cole, John Howard Lawson, 'Ring Lardner Jr' , Albert Maltz, Adrian Scott, and Samuel Ornitz,
Trumbo - like the others - refused to answer any questions. In a defense
strategy crafted by CPUSA lawyers, the soon-to-be-known-as "Hollywood 10" claimed that the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave them the right to refuse to answer inquiries into their political beliefs as well as their professional associations. HCUA cited them for
contempt of Congress, and the Hollywood 10 were tried and convicted on the charge. All were fined and jailed, with Trumbo being sentenced to a year in federal prison and a fine of $1,000. He served 10 months of the sentence.
The Hollywood 10 were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios, a blacklist enforced by the very guilds they helped create. Trumbo and the other Hollywood 10 screenwriters were kicked out of the Screen Writers Guild (John Howard Lawson had been one of the founders of the SWG and its first president), which meant, even if they weren't blacklisted, they could not obtain work in Hollywood. Those who
continued to write for the American cinema had to do so under assumed names..."
Ibid.
BTW, when the Ten claimed a First Amendment right not to answer the Houses questions, the Supreme Court refused to even hear the case.
3. "In 1949, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., wrote in The Saturday Review of Books, that Trumbo was in fact NOT a free speech martyr since he would not fight for freedom of speech for ALL the people, such as right-wing conservatives, but
only for the freedom of speech of CPUSA members.The anti-communist Schlesinger, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard historian, thought
Trumbo and others like him were doctrinaire communists and hypocrites."
Ibid.
4. "...
Trumbo wrote approximately thirty scripts under pseudonyms and using fronts who relayed the money to him." Ibid.
And....I saved the coup de grâce for last:
5. " In fact, most of what people ordinarily mean when they talk about the "red scare" the
House Un-American Activities Committee; anti-Communist probes into Hollywood, labor unions, and America's schools and universities; the Rosenberg trial; blacklisting in the media and schoolteachers fired for disloyalty had nothing to do with McCarthy and he had nothing to do with them..."
Joseph McCarthy
To review:
1. The test was: "who did he injure that wasn't a communist agent or spy or proponent of the overthrowing of the United States."
2. Your response of Dalton Trumbo is of course wrong, because he a) was a communist, and refused to admit that to HUAC....
and, b) It was SENATOR Joseph McCarthy, hardly a member of a HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES committee.
...how about c) Trumbo continued to thrive during the 'blacklisting' by Hollywood. A very different fate from the Russians who died in gulags under his pride and joy, Joseph Stalin.
So...in offering Dalton Trumbo you have failed miserably.
My point about McCarthy.....
...proven.
Would you care to maintain your honor and admit same?
