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condemns such conduct and has never indulged in it. Every time AWARE, Inc., by one of its bulletins has identified a person as a member of the Communist Party or as a member of some Communist front organization, it has told the complete truth and it has in its possession ample documentation or other evi- dence to demonstrate this. Not one of the persons thus iden- tified by AWARE has filed suit to challenge AWARE'S accuracy. (3) Some persons have found it to their advantage to transfer the name "blacklisting" from its traditional meaning in senses (1) and (2), above, so that it will cover a third meaning: to tell the truth about people when, in the interest of one's union, one's profession and one's country, the truth needs to be told. This is not "blacklisting" imputing wrong or unjust conduct. If, in fact, people are giving aid and comfort to communism, by becoming members of the Communist Party or by frequently joining Communist front organizations, the current world situation requires that they be identified as carriers of a political and moral contagion, whether they know it or not. They should not be allowed to be "neutral" in this fight. They should stand up and be counted. In this mortal conflict, he "who gathers not with us scatters." Almost nine hundred million people behind Iron Curtains without the slightest vestige of civil liberties is holocaust enough. It is time to fight back. We must protect ourselves and our heritage. In this respect it must be admitted that an actor's reputation is "precariously perched." Every man's reputation is, in a sense, pre- cariously perched. One foul act, one immoral decision can send it to destruction. Each responsible human being carries his own reputation in his hands, as it were. If he is guilty of obscene or indecent conduct, he cannot validly hope to be immunized from criticism for it simply because he happens to have great talent as an artist. If a man commits murder, he is going to be recognized as a murderer. He cannot run to his union because of the damage to his reputation and professional standing which results from his own conduct. Communism is a con- spiracy that has to its discredit more murders than have ever char- acterized any previous tyrants in history. In Red China alone, since October, 1949, more than 15 million persons have been liquidated for political reasons only. 140