American Writers Congress, Manhattan Center, NYC Jun41
Genevieve Taggard at lectern: “...but the story in the light of this truth, in spite of all its complicated length, simplifies itself. We are not then the fools of a day, or an hour, or a decade. Neither are we the gullible readers of cheap newspaper hysteria, swayed this way & that, by the high pressure rationalizers; the ad-men of a new fangled despot. We do know where we are going, & we are on our way... Do you think that another war against the will of our people...can be recorded...by our pro-war columnists? We, the League, announced tonight that we aren’t for sale to that or any other group.” applause.
02:33:17 John Howard Lawson: “I have the honor to be a participant in that first Writers Congress in 1935 & I think that that marked... You heard a speaker a few moments ago speak of the great struggle of the Chinese people to preserve their culture & their independence. Well we’re now being told that our United Sates is really concerned about the Democracy of China. Well that’s a very interesting point. After financing the supplies, after supplying the oil which has been used to drop bombs on China, to operate the entire Japanese war machine; we are now told that we are going into the east in order to defend the integrity of China... ...defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere today we are collaborating w/ all the most fascist & reactionary forces in the Western Hemisphere. Is this collaboration accidental? No more accidental than Munich was accidental; it was part of the same old tried & true pattern. This great war for Democracy which is engineered & supported by Dupont & Morgan & Rockefeller is a very strange war for Democracy. But that...
02:34:54 Men standing beneath signs: Press; Writer Delegates. Men sit down to applause.
02:35:01 Rockwell Kent at podium: “..six, seven, eight, ten, twelve years ago not one, not a dozen, not a hundred but thousands & hundreds of thousands & millions of people in America knew by God that there was a big, great, state-of-emergency in America (applause) and they have been declaring that over & over again thruout these years, crying it out, saying this is a state-of-emergency; our lives are passing away, may we never again know employment, never again know happiness, never again share in life? Is all hope ended? Are the dividends of Democracy never to come to us? And no one hears them. And at last the President, the representative of the American People, declares a State of Emergency. But is it here? Does he recognize that state of emergency as here in America? No! Far-sighted man, looks across 3,000 miles of ocean to over there. Declaring a state of emergency, how that fools people, what Constitutional Right in the world has the President of the United States to declare a state of emergency...”
02:36:25 Speakers seated on podium laughing & applauding: Kent, Dr. Chu Tong, Lawson, Taggard, Sam Putman. Unseen & unid. speaker: “...we’ve cleaned our decks, we’ve gotten rid of the rats & everybody that couldn’t come...we are solidly together as one; to fight for Peace & for Democracy in America. (applause)
02:36:48 LS & MCU shots of audience, applauding.
02:37:40 Audience listening as Trumbo speaks: “...content of our major publications, though God knows the fiction isn’t increased enough (laughter).
Communism; American Criticism; Depression; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2;
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American Writers Congress, Manhattan Center, NYC Jun41 Genevieve Taggard at lectern: “...but the story in the light of this truth, in spite of all its complicated length, simplifies itself. We are not then the fools of a day, or an hour, or a decade. Neither are we the gullible readers of cheap newspaper hysteria, swayed this way & that, by the high pressure rationalizers; the ad-men of a new fangled despot. We do know where we are going, & we are on our way... Do you think that another war against the will of our people...can be recorded...by our pro-war columnists? We, the League, announced tonight that we aren’t for sale to that or any other group.” applause. 02:33:17 John Howard Lawson: “I have the honor to be a participant in that first Writers Congress in 1935 & I think that that marked... You heard a speaker a few moments ago speak of the great struggle of the Chinese people to preserve their culture & their independence. Well we’re now being told that our United Sates is really concerned about the Democracy of China. Well that’s a very interesting point. After financing the supplies, after supplying the oil which has been used to drop bombs on China, to operate the entire Japanese war machine; we are now told that we are going into the east in order to defend the integrity of China... ...defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere today we are collaborating w/ all the most fascist & reactionary forces in the Western Hemisphere. Is this collaboration accidental? No more accidental than Munich was accidental; it was part of the same old tried & true pattern. This great war for Democracy which is engineered & supported by Dupont & Morgan & Rockefeller is a very strange war for Democracy. But that... 02:34:54 Men standing beneath signs: Press; Writer Delegates. Men sit down to applause. 02:35:01 Rockwell Kent at podium: “..six, seven, eight, ten, twelve years ago not one, not a dozen, not a hundred but thousands & hundreds of thousands & millions of people in America knew by God that there was a big, great, state-of-emergency in America (applause) and they have been declaring that over & over again thruout these years, crying it out, saying this is a state-of-emergency; our lives are passing away, may we never again know employment, never again know happiness, never again share in life? Is all hope ended? Are the dividends of Democracy never to come to us? And no one hears them. And at last the President, the representative of the American People, declares a State of Emergency. But is it here? Does he recognize that state of emergency as here in America? No! Far-sighted man, looks across 3,000 miles of ocean to over there. Declaring a state of emergency, how that fools people, what Constitutional Right in the world has the President of the United States to declare a state of emergency...” 02:36:25 Speakers seated on podium laughing & applauding: Kent, Dr. Chu Tong, Lawson, Taggard, Sam Putman. Unseen & unid. speaker: “...we’ve cleaned our decks, we’ve gotten rid of the rats & everybody that couldn’t come...we are solidly together as one; to fight for Peace & for Democracy in America. (applause) 02:36:48 LS & MCU shots of audience, applauding. 02:37:40 Audience listening as Trumbo speaks: “...content of our major publications, though God knows the fiction isn’t increased enough (laughter). Communism; American Criticism; Depression; Pre-WWII; Pre-WW2;