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The MPA is not alone in this phony cry of Communism in pictures. Other men have worked the same side of the street and found it equally profitable: Bob Reynolds, Ham Fish, Burt Wheeler, Jack Tenny, Martin Dies, John Costello, Joe Starnes, Theodore Bilbo, Laura Ingalls, Gerald Winrod, Charles Coughlin, Bert McCormick, John Rankin, Clare Hoffman, Elizabeth Dilling, Lawrence Dennis, Court Asher, James True, Joe Kamp and a host of European dignitaries no longer active in the world of politics have made precisely the same criticism of Hollywood. What they all mean is that Hollywood makes films with which they and their followers are in complete disagreement — an accusation which should fill every executive and every motion picture worker with pride and a determination to do more of the same.
It is extremely interesting that the Readers' Digest, which published America's leading Fascist, the execrable Lawrence Dennis, should have sought out the MPA to express its point of view on contemporary films. For the Digest's point of view is apparent from its long sequence of viciously reactionary articles. Similarly, the MPA's point of view becomes increasingly clear. Executive board members of the MPA have addressed meetings of organizations which have a proven record of isolationist, anti-labor and antiSemitic activities. Whether the MPA disavows it or not, it and its members have received the blessings of Bob Reynolds, organizer of the fascist American Vindicators; of Congressman Rankin, unregenerate labor-baiter and outspoken anti-Semite; of Gerald L. K. Smith, whose maunderings disgrace the country which guarantees his freedom to speak. The program of the MPA is a program which could not have failed to gain them such embarrassing allies. And so long as that program continues, just so long will the MPA be afflicted with enthusiastic support from the dark underworld of American reaction.
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