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History Of The Waldorf Statement
A public statement was issued for the benefit of the leaders of the bigger sized studios that came to be alluded to as the Waldorf Statement. This occurred on November 25, 1947, by Eric Johnston, President of the Motion Picture Association of America. This announcement reported the terminating of the Hollywood Ten and expressed:"We will not knowingly employ a Communist or a member of any party or group which advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States[...]". This denoted the start of the Hollywood blacklist. Despite the way that hundreds would be denied work, the studios, makers and different businesses did not openly concede that a blacklist even existed. Right now, private loyalty-review boards and anti-communist investigators
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