![]() Once the war ended, the FBI & Congress belatedly turned their attention to the domestic Communist menace and Trumbo ended up being a member of the Hollywood Ten, when he refused to name fellow Party members in a fit of ne found moral virginity. He not only refused them, he also turned their names over to the FBI. Meanwhile, isolationists praised the book and tried getting Trumbo to join their movement. However, as soon as Hitler invaded the Soviet Union, Party members were commanded to advocate immediate American intervention, so with Trumbo's connivance the book disappeared from print. So Trumbo penned this seemingly impassioned anti-war diatribe. After the Stalin-Hitler Nonaggression pact was signed, doctrinaire communists like Trumbo were ordered to oppose US entry into the war the Nazis were suddenly allies of the Communists. The story of Dalton Trumbo & this pacifist classic is as entertaining as anything he ever wrote. ![]()
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