[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 43 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E483]
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                           OPPOSING COMMUNISM

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                             HON. TOM DeLAY

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 18, 1999

  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Speaker, I commend the following remarks given by Paul 
Harvey in a radio broadcast on March 16, 1999 to my colleagues.


       [Excerpt from Paul Harvey News, March 16, 1999]
       When Communism was threatening to take over the world there 
     were Americans with divided allegiance. Communists had 
     infiltrated some high places into the United States. A lean 
     young traitor was able to walk out of the Supreme Court 
     building with two character references in his briefcase.
       In Hollywood individuals suspected of communist sympathies 
     were blacklisted. Some were denied employment for years. Less 
     well known is the Hollywood blacklist of ANTI communists and 
     this one still exists.
       March 21, next Sunday; in Los Angeles, California at the 
     Dorothy Chandler Pavilion there will be a ceremony of support 
     for the actors and actresses who have been blacklisted 
     because they dared oppose communism. Adolph Menjou, Elia 
     Kazan, and recognition for his red-white and blue colleagues: 
     Writer Jack Moffitt, Richard Macaulay, Morris Ryskind, Fred 
     Niblo, Junior. Albert Mannheimer who dared fight communists 
     within the Screen Actors Guild.
       Most of these who opposed communism never worked in 
     Hollywood again. They represent the ``other blacklist.'' And 
     it is not limited to Hollywood.
       All media include some whose patriotism is diluted and to 
     whom anybody consistently on the right is anathema. They 
     hated Reagan and still do.
       Such is the ``new discrimination'' a new organization has 
     taken root to protect the civil rights of the American right. 
     The American Civil Rights Union chaired by Robert Carlson and 
     with a board comprised of Bob Bork, Linda Chavez, Ed Meese, 
     Joe Perkins, Ken Tomlinson.
       In my professional experience there is less--left-right--
     polarization in our nation than ever in this century. But 
     what it is is insidious, entrenched, tenacious. Until the day 
     when there will be need for an ACLU or an ACRU . . . it is 
     constructive that we now have both.

     

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