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Communism & Hollywood  October 20, 1947: Congress challenges
Hollywood’s loyalty, and an American Communist makes a
discovery.  This all happened back in the days when there were
real Communists—not today’s “communists” who want health care
reform, but true, card-carrying, loyal-to-Moscow Communists.  In
1947 it became clear that our ally against Nazi Germany had
picked up its old habits. Russia was back in the business of
overthrowing governments and supporting global revolution. A
number of Americans were already acting as agents for the
Soviets. One group had stolen plans for our atomic bomb and
delivered it to the Russians. America saw the countries of
Europe fall under communist sway that year. It knew that it
faced domestic threats, but not who was involved, or who could
be trusted. As a result, the response was often overblown. For
example, the infiltration of Communists into one labor union
brought all unions under suspicion.  In this year, t