What were Sean Souths ideals? The letter published below was written by South on January 3, 1949, and appeared in the Limerick Leader on the 10th of that month. The ideals expressed In the letter will help to explain the decline of the Sean South Commemoration and the absence of the local trade union and socialist movement from the yearly march. CINEMA STARS AND THEIR ATTITUDE TO COMMUNISM A RED LIST (To the Editor, Limerick Leader) A Dhuine Uasail — Allow me, through your columns, to enlighten some film fan(atic)s with regard to the true character of those individuals whom they have placed on pedestals of hero worship. I am sure that if they fully realised the dangers resulting from the stream of insidious propaganda which proceeds from Judaco-Masonic controlled sources, and which warps and corrupts the minds of our youth by implanting therein a false philosophy and concept of life, they would not hesitate to rise and strike. WHAT AMERICAN CATHOLICS HAVE DONE American Catholics have risen to the occasion by banding unitedly together in organisations whose policy it is to boycott both the films in which any of the undermentioned take part, and also the theatres which present them. The recent successful campaigns against the showing in Ireland of Duel in the Sun and Forever Amber bear elo- quent testimony that we have a public opinion capable of ex- erting itself when called upon. Yes, when called, but what would happen should the call come too late? Now is the time for action! Useless and unavailing it will be for us to cry as we lie in chains! Attack is the best means of defence. On the other hand, however, maybe, we, descendants of those forefathers who fought and died so unselfishly, so heroically, so courageously, for Faith and Fatherland, are go- ing to betray and forsake that gloriously noble heritage by suc- cumbing, like slaves, to the modern attacks against God and country — attacks aided financially and morally by those whom our youth, through ignorance, strive to imitate. In the issue at present at stake in the world to-day nobody can sit on the hedge — he that is not with Christ is against Christ. A RED LIST I sincerely hope that the publication of the list hereunder of Communist Film Stars, and those who, we say, euphemistically, have Communist Tendencies, will have the desired effect:- James Cagney, Joan Bennett, Betsy Blair. Humphrey Bogan. J. Edw. Bromberg. Eddie Cantor, Charlie Chaplain, John Cromwell, Edward Dmytrik, George Colouris, Phillip Dunne, Melvyn Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.; Sylvia Fine, Henry Fonda, John Garfield, Betty Garrett, Paulette Goddard, Ira Ger- shwin, Ben Hecht, Paul Henreld, Katherine Hepburn, John Houseman, Marsha Hunt, Moss Hart, Walter Huston, William Holden, Olivia de Haviland, Rita Hayworth, Danny Kaye. Gene Kelly, Alexander Knox, Arthur Lubin, Fritz Lang, John H. Law. son, Burt Lancaster, Anatole Litvak, Myrna Loy, Peter Lorre, Frederick Marsh. Burgess Meredith. Groucho Marx. Harpo Marx. Larry Parks, Gregory Peck, Vincent Price, Edward G. Robinson, Paul Robeson, Adrian Scott, Joseph Sistrom, Robert Siodmack, Irwin Shaw, Frank Sinatra, Sylvia Sydney, Gail Wagner, Cornel Wilde, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Jane Wyatt. (The above list, as is obvious, is composed of only the prin- cipal Red stars in the Hollywood firmament. Almost one-third of all the actors and actresses in Hollywood hold membership in the Communist Party}. SERIOUS THOUGHT In view of the above and of the fact that some of the aforementioned people have publicly associated themselves with Communism by attending party public meetings, by nominating election candidates, by perversely lending their God-given talents to the Anti-God activities of the Communist Youth Organisations — in view of this it is incompatible that Irish Catholics can conscientuously choose for amusement pictures by their attendance at which they indirectly finance Communism and keep in their positions, to use their evil in- fluence against God and man, those traitors who have sold themselves to the diabolical and inhuman task-master — Atheistic Communism. I thank you, Mr. Editor, for the valuable space you have given me in your paper. SEAN SABHAT 32, Sraid Annrool, Luirhneach 3rd January, 1949. (Source: Limerick Socialist, Vol 10. N.1, January 1981)
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