| Show Victor i tor Riesel iese Inside Story o of John Garfield Lets Let's get gel it out in the open There are are ale those who art are saying It was the Communists anti-Communists w who h o hounded r iW movie t tough 0 u h lf guy John Garfield Gar Gar- field to 10 death 1 9 There are 1 those hit and I 2 r r ru run 11 n political cal propagandists i 1 who paint thi this indecent p pi i f cI c- c I ture and leave leil I the impression Mr Kiesel Riesel t l that h n a t a n t i- i corn communism is synonymous with unfeeling All right They want to play rough Let Lets Let's see who lynches liberalism and anel desecrated the decency of an actor who attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted to escape the old Hollywood Hol Hol- lywood Here are names llames dates date and places You the people judge And act Leaders of the A F Ls L's Screen Actors' Actors Guild will vouch for the fact that back in 1946 durin during the turbulent pro-Communist pro film studio strike a group of Stalinists pro-Stalinists b borrowed o 0 r r o 0 w e d the lush home of a famous woman star The leftists needed the spot to lo concentrate their movie people in a safe and respectable home to plan a most vital stratagem Crashed Meeting The violent movie strike was cracking despite its support by Harry Bridges' Bridges stron strong arm men sent ent into the film colony from California's port cities The pro Commies knew that unless they could swing the support of the militantly Communist anti-Communist Screen Actors Actors' Union the stoppage stoppage stoppage stop stop- page would fizzle in a series of sporadic fist fights So they called their people to the actress actress' actress actress' actress actress' ac ac- tress' tress home Screen Actors' Actors president president pres pres- ident Ronnie Reagan was off and with the usually usually usually ally sh shy 11 Will William i i a m Holden crashed the meeting Ronnie tried s several veral times to get the floor only floor only to be he jeered and booed into angered silence Finally from one corner of the crowd an en enraged rag e d actor jumped up and with the skill of oC a hundred screen characterizations characterizations characterizations charac charac- pleaded for some show of decency to their union president The actor actor actor ac ac- tor who asked that Reagan be heard was John Garfield This guy knows what hes he's talking about lets let's hear him John demanded Berated Garfield They shut up and listened But another actor leaped to his feet and almost dragged John into a corner That actor who answers now to Iron Curtain calls was the rabid Howard daSilva one of oC the lefties' lefties whips whips- Looking across the room Ronnie saw daSilva tugging tugging tugging tug tug- ging with both hands at the front of oC Johns John's shirt shirt and and heard him berate Garfield for taking the Communist anti-Communist lineon line lineon lineon on the strike In the days before John died he told me one of scores of such persecuting moments Whenever Whenever Whenever When When- ever hed he'd back the Marshall plan or the Nazi anti war during during during dur dur- ing the Moscow Berlin pact or attempt to support Finland during the Soviet invasion some commissar would nail him and hammer the confused actor into believing this was the betrayal of oC liberalism And who is daSilva Hes He's theman the theman theman man who marched in the last New York Communist May lay Day parade Refused to Say Hes He's the man who refused to answer a congressional committee commit commit- tee when it asked him him- Mr ul daSilva for example if the Soviet So So- Soviet viet vict Union should attack the the- U. U S S. S will you support and would you bear arms for theU the U U. S S. S S. I He refused to say he would There are hundreds like him now attempting to lo prove that is Theres There's a Waldo Salt who has been exploiting the Church of oC the Holy Trinity Just as Garfield Garfield Garfield Gar- Gar field and others were exploited I But what daSilvas daSilva's friend I Waldo Salt didn't tell the church people was that he refused refused refused re re- re- re fused to affirm or den deny before a congressional committee that thata a party card number was his Or that he had attended meetings with J J. J Peters the Soviets Soviet's Soviets Soviet's Soviets Soviet's So So- viets viet's master spy in America |
