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B AS IN BARNUM 275 ducer's remark. "What he was really trying to tell me was that it was a great picture because of its spiritual power." The climate in the bungalow grew more oppressive each day for those of us who, being Catholics, remained silent on the issues. DeMille, furious with Father Little, became more articu- late, bringing the entire framework of Catholicism into the range of his observations. At one point he likened the power of the Catholic Church to world communism, then eyed the Catholics on his staff for some sign of reaction. They managed a smile, a kind of gentle, understanding smile that recognized the boss's anger and that actually he did not really mean half of what he was saying. "Father Little's attitude is purely political," he fumed. "One of those men who have the power to say 'Thou Shalt Not'!" He said his daughter had told him of her plan to send her son, Jody, to a Catholic school, but he had advised her to think a little before doing that~"Then I told her all about Father Little." The emotional blood-letting did not diminish. For the next week a member of the staff worked on what DeMille said would be a strong reply to the Legion of Decency. The letter might even be made public as part of an attack on the Legion, should the controversy compel his taking so drastic a course. He felt deep within, however, that the Legion surely would withdraw from its position. The first draft of the reply was very strong and was toned down, but the final letter left little doubt that DeMille was heatedly inviting a head-on clash with the national censoring body whose recommendations come to the attention of the majority of the million and a quarter Catholics in the United States. Mr. DeMiUe's letter charged Father Little with being "the first and only person to raise an objection to the picture on moral grounds." He denied Sebastian's character was offensive, and '1 cannot by any stretch of the imagination conceive that