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262 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT
railroad station where the refugees were pouring in before the Russian attacks on the eastern frontier, and give it all away. Zukor was arranging to guard Rabbi Liebermann against his own generosity when the red cloud settled upon us also, and remittances must cease — for sending money to a relative on the other side of the barrier constituted technical disloyalty.
Throughout the war, Zukor and all the family connection were shipping their concentrated product in increasing quantities and at increasing prices to all the Allied nations. Yet by odd circumstance, the Allies practically excluded their persons. American citizens all, they were nevertheless “of enemy birth or origin.” Even though they forced or cajoled an entrance into Great Britain, France, or Italy, they would live and move under espionage and dark suspicion. When in 1916 Charlie Chaplin signed his contract for ^10,000 a week, the British press stormed and fulminated at this born Briton who remained in America making money while the Empire stood in peril. Only a manoeuvre of commercial propaganda, this. With exactly the same motive and inspiration, the British press denounced The Big Parade in 1925 as “a piece of Yankee boastfulness” — while from the Hebrides to the Lizard it packed houses and scored record runs.
It needed but one unforeseen incident to start a hue and cry, just as insincere, against these Americans of “enemy origin” who were cutting so deeply into an