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    During WWII, 277 members of the Screen Writers Guild served in the armed forces against fascism, with 5 not returning. Within 6 years of returning, 43 of them were denounced as un-American, stripped of their names and passports, and blacklisted. The blacklist period was a time of evil where no one emerged untouched by evil, as individuals reacted in different ways depending on their nature, needs, convictions and circumstances in a situation beyond any individual's control, with both good and bad, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice seen on both sides.

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    During WWII, 277 members of the Screen Writers Guild served in the armed forces against fascism, with 5 not returning. Within 6 years of returning, 43 of them were denounced as un-American, stripped of their names and passports, and blacklisted. The blacklist period was a time of evil where no one emerged untouched by evil, as individuals reacted in different ways depending on their nature, needs, convictions and circumstances in a situation beyond any individual's control, with both good and bad, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice seen on both sides.

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    During WWII, 277 members of the Screen Writers Guild served in the armed forces against fascism, with 5 not returning. Within 6 years of returning, 43 of them were denounced as un-American, stripped of their names and passports, and blacklisted. The blacklist period was a time of evil where no one emerged untouched by evil, as individuals reacted in different ways depending on their nature, needs, convictions and circumstances in a situation beyond any individual's control, with both good and bad, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice seen on both sides.

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    FROM DALTON TRUMBOS LAUREL AWARD ACCEPTANCE SPEECH (1970):

    During the Second World 277 members of the Guild entered the armed services
    to fight what was then called the war against fascism. Five of them did not come
    back. Within in six years, forty-three of those who did return were denounced as
    un-American, stripped of their names and passports, and blacklisted.

    I presume that over half of our members have no memory of that blacklist
    because they were children when it began, or not yet born. To them I would say
    only this: that the blacklist was a time of evil, and that no one on either side who
    survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed
    beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his
    needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There
    was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice,
    selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both
    sides; and almost every individual involved, no matter where he stood, combined
    some or all of these antithetical qualities in his own person, in his own acts.

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