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Kazan vs. Stalin's liars: for more than 50 years, the Hollywood Left and its co-conspirators in academia and the media have conducted a vicious vilification campaign against film great Elia Kazan.(Hollywood)

The New American

| December 01, 2003 | Jasper, William F. | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

First-hand experience of dictatorship and thought control left me with an abiding hatred of these. It left me with an abiding hatred of Communist philosophy and methods.

It also left me with the passionate conviction that we must never let the Communists get away with the pretense that they stand for the very things which they kill in their own countries. I am talking about free speech, a free press, the rights of labor, racial equality and, above all, individual rights. I value these things. I take them seriously. I value peace too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. I believe these things must be fought for wherever they are not fully ...

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