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ceedings against Eisler to the American Embassy in Paris.
Westbrook Pegler, on December 3, 1947, devoted a whole column to anti-Chaplin vituperation. On the Eisler incident, Pegler fulminates: "This was an attempt by an alien, resident here for more than thirty-five years, guilty of a degree of moral turpitude which disqualifies him for citizenship, caught in the act of cheating the government of an enormous debt for taxes, a slacker in both World Wars, although he clamored with the Communists for a second front in the latest one — an attempt by this alien ... to foment an artificial political demonstration against the United States by Communists in Paris in reprisal for certain legal action taken by the elected Representatives of the American people in Congress."
1947 seems to have been the lowest point in Chaplin's popularity. He was even attacked in Congress. On June 12, Representative John E. Rankin demanded his deportation, asserting that the film actor's Hollywood life "is detrimental to the moral fabric of America" and, that he has refused to become an American citizen. By deporting him, "he can be kept off the American screen and his loathsome pictures can be kept from the eyes of American youth." A variety of other organizations and individuals participated in the attacks. Probably no performer in the history of the theatre has had to weather such extremes of adulation and hate.
On the other hand, transgressions sometimes help at the box office. It is a strange commentary on our times that the public forgives transgression that is in keeping with the actor's screen portrayals; others are punished with mud-slinging and loss of attendance. It seems impossible for the public to separate a screen actor's work and private life.
For a London publication, Chaplin wrote that he had had enough of Hollywood. "Before long, I shall perhaps leave the United States, although it has given me so