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] HY 100n25858 | conga who have eacrificed their homes and themselves in resisting the Fascist hordes. The movie program for the "North S Victoria Theatre in New York City displays a photograph of and sets forth her activities in the mtion picture field. She was awarded the drama critics award in 1942 for her play "Watch on ths Rhine™, wee Ter The New York Daily News for December 27, 1943 quotes HERMAN SHUMLIN, producer, as saying that ITLLIAN HELIMANts new play, "A Searching Wind" is expected to be completed by March 1944, Ee stated that the play is concerned with "Diplomacy and diplomats and some Washington people, ( : NATIONALISTIC TENDENCIES ho LILLIAN RELDMAN is a member of many organizations which are — reportedly Communist dominated and has been a follower of the Communist Party HOw Oe YOu ae whe OO} @D Ao ew rm SOQANIST ACTIVITIES _ — Ge ACTIVITIES ON BEHALF OF LOYALIST SPAIN AND APRAHAN LINCOLN BRIGADE roe An article appearing in the my 1999 issue of Wileon Bulletin fo for Librarians contains the followings “In 1936 Missa HELLMAN went to Havana, w Cube, and in August of the year following she sailed for Europes In Russia iinet she was immensely ispressed by the Theatre and in wartime Spain put all her , syapathies on the loyelist side™, _ According to the May 194] issue cof Current Biography, while in Europe in 1936 and 1937, LILLIAN HELLMAN saw the Theatre in Russia and went _ te Spain, where for a month in 1937, she wes under bombardeent under Francots _ forces. She returned to America a militant anti-Fascist to champion actively the cause of Loyalist Spaing Since then, she has continued to fight Fascism : with all her heart and strength. As she once said, "I am a writer, I =m y also @ Jew, I want to be quite sure that I can contime to be a writer and that if I want to say that greed is bad or persecution is worse, I can do ; 80 without being branded by the malice of people who make a living by that ' malice,* CeO IRU UNH OO DIO mh In thea New York Times edition of January 25, 1937, there appears an article indicating that "The Spanish Karth*® movie made by JORIS IVENS, was sponsored by the “Contemporary Historians Incorporeted*, a group beaded by LILLIAN HELD‘AN, ARCHIBALD MAC LEACH, JOHN DOS PASSOS, and ERNEST HEAMINGWAY, for the benefit of Ioyalist causes, . 7 o 3m Lei - Th ra | content - 431