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The book was published in 1939, during the [[Nazi-Soviet pact]], when the Party line was to keep the U.S. from interfering in Hitler and Stalin's division of Europe. The book was serialized in the Communist newspaper ''The Daily Worker.'' Upon the collapse of the pact, Trumbo, like the Party line, reversed course, becoming fanatically pro-war. He "immediately scurried to withdraw the book from circulation, and bookstores were ordered to send their copies back to the publisher."<ref>Ron Radosh, "[https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2015/11/26/trumbo-train-wreck Red Star Falling: The Trumbo Train Wreck]," PJ Media, November 26, 2015</ref> When fans wrote to Trumbo requesting copies of the book, he "named names," turning them in to the FBI, writing:

The book was published in 1939, during the [[Nazi-Soviet pact]], when the Party line was to keep the U.S. from interfering in Hitler and Stalin's division of Europe. The book was serialized in the Communist newspaper ''The Daily Worker.'' Upon the collapse of the pact, Trumbo, like the Party line, reversed course, becoming fanatically pro-war. He "immediately scurried to withdraw the book from circulation, and bookstores were ordered to send their copies back to the publisher."<ref>Ron Radosh, "[https://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2015/11/26/trumbo-train-wreck Red Star Falling: The Trumbo Train Wreck]," PJ Media, November 26, 2015</ref> When fans wrote to Trumbo requesting copies of the book, he "named names," turning them in to the FBI, writing:

{{cquote|I share with the men of your organization a sincere desire to see an end to all such seditious propaganda as criminal slander of the Commander in Chief, defeatism, pacifism," etc.<ref>Dalton Trumbo (Helen Manfull, Ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue; Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (M. Evans/Lippincott, 1970), p. 30. Cf. Trumbo, Dalton. ''Johnny Got his Gun.'' 1939, introduction.</ref>}}

{{cquote|I share with the men of your organization a sincere desire to see an end to all such seditious propaganda as criminal slander of the Commander in Chief, defeatism, pacifism," etc.<ref>Dalton Trumbo (Helen Manfull, Ed.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue; Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (M. Evans/Lippincott, 1970), p. 30. Cf. Trumbo, Dalton. ''Johnny Got his Gun.'' 1939, introduction.</ref>}}

In 1944, Trumbo personally invited the FBI to his house [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8914 to turn over the names of people] who had asked him for copies of the novel.

In 1944, Trumbo personally invited the FBI to his house [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=8914 to turn over the names of people] who had asked him for copies of the novel.

Long before the Blacklist, there was Hollywood's Communist "Redlist." In ''The Worker'', Trumbo openly boasted that the comrades had prevented the production of Hollywood films based on books banned by Stalin, including classics such as Arthur Koestler's ''Darkness at Noon'' and Victor Kravchenko's ''I Chose Freedom''.<ref>Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, "[http://reason.com/archives/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies/singlepage Hollywood's Missing Movies]," ''Reason'', June 2000</ref> When Hollywood screenwriter Richard MacCauley submitted a piece to ''Screenwriter'' magazine opposing left-wing censorship, Trumbo, who was then the magazine's editor, rejected the piece, denouncing the "inalienable right" to free speech, which he claimed had "directly resulted" in the [[Holocaust]]:

Long before the Blacklist, there was Hollywood's Communist "Redlist." In ''The Worker'', Trumbo openly boasted that the comrades had prevented the production of Hollywood films based on books banned by Stalin, including classics such as Arthur Koestler's ''Darkness at Noon'' and Victor Kravchenko's ''I Chose Freedom''.<ref>Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley, "[http://reason.com/archives/2000/06/01/hollywoods-missing-movies/singlepage Hollywood's Missing Movies]," ''Reason'', June 2000</ref> When Hollywood screenwriter Richard MacCauley submitted a piece to ''Screenwriter'' magazine opposing left-wing censorship, Trumbo, who was then the magazine's editor, rejected the piece, denouncing the "inalienable right" to free speech, which he claimed had "directly resulted" in the [[Holocaust]]:

{{cquote|It is difficult to support your belief in the inalienable right of man’s mind to be exposed to any thought whatever, however intolerable that thought might be to anyone else. Frequently such a right encroaches upon the right of others to live their lives. It was this inalienable right in Fascist countries which directly resulted in the slaughter of five million Jews.<ref>John Cogley, ''[http://www.archive.org/download/reportonblacklis00coglrich/reportonblacklis00coglrich.pdf Report on Blacklisting]'' (The Fund for the Republic, 1956), p. 68. Cf. Ron Capshaw, "[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=242 Orwell vs. Communism]," FrontPageMagazine.com, February 9, 2007</ref>}}

{{cquote|It is difficult to support your belief in the inalienable right of man’s mind to be exposed to any thought whatever, however intolerable that thought might be to anyone else. Frequently such a right encroaches upon the right of others to live their lives. It was this inalienable right in Fascist countries which directly resulted in the slaughter of five million Jews.<ref>John Cogley, ''[http://www.archive.org/download/reportonblacklis00coglrich/reportonblacklis00coglrich.pdf Report on Blacklisting]'' (The Fund for the Republic, 1956), p. 68. Cf. Ron Capshaw, "[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=242 Orwell vs. Communism]," FrontPageMagazine.com, February 9, 2007</ref>}}

Trumbo claimed to have ghost-written Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.'s Report to the Nation on the 1945 founding conference of the [[United Nations]], where [[Alger Hiss]] presided as Secretary General.<ref>Dalton Trumbo (Helen Manfull, Ed.), ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue; Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (M. Evans/Lippincott, 1970), p. 37</ref> In 1946, he hosted a CPUSA meeting, allegedly to discuss putting Communist propaganda in Hollywood movies.<ref>Victor S. Navasky, ''Naming Names'' (1980), p.78</ref> At that time, the Soviet Union was becoming America's [[Cold War]] enemy, and it controlled the CPUSA. In 1947, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] called Trumbo to testify about Communist influence in Hollywood. In the course of this hearing, the committee introduced into evidence a Communist Party registration card for 1944, issued under the name "Dalt. T.," identified as a motion picture writer, residing at 620 Beverly Drive. Trumbo's Communist Party card number was 39300.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, [https://archive.org/download/hearingsregardin1947aunit/hearingsregardin1947aunit_bw.pdf Hearings regarding the Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry] (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947), pp. 539-540</ref> Trumbo refused to testify, and spent 11 months in prison for [[contempt of Congress]]. He, along with nine other Communists convicted of contempt of Congress, are known as the [[Hollywood Ten]] for allegedly being blacklisted by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and had difficulties getting scriptwriting jobs and often worked under a pseudonym.  However, after receiving full writing credits on such movies as [[Spartacus (movie)|Spartacus]] and [[Exodus (movie)|Exodus]], he was reinstated into the Writers' Guild of America.<ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874308/bio The Internet Movie Database]</ref>

Trumbo claimed to have ghost-written Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.'s Report to the Nation on the 1945 founding conference of the [[United Nations]], where [[Alger Hiss]] presided as Secretary General.<ref>Dalton Trumbo (Helen Manfull, Ed.), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=uJpbAAAAMAAJ&pgis=1 Additional Dialogue; Letters of Dalton Trumbo, 1942-1962]'' (M. Evans/Lippincott, 1970), p. 37</ref> In 1946, he hosted a CPUSA meeting, allegedly to discuss putting Communist propaganda in Hollywood movies.<ref>Victor S. Navasky, ''Naming Names'' (1980), p.78</ref> At that time, the Soviet Union was becoming America's [[Cold War]] enemy, and it controlled the CPUSA. In 1947, the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] called Trumbo to testify about Communist influence in Hollywood. In the course of this hearing, the committee introduced into evidence a Communist Party registration card for 1944, issued under the name "Dalt. T.," identified as a motion picture writer, residing at 620 Beverly Drive. Trumbo's Communist Party card number was 39300.<ref>Committee on Un-American Activities, [https://archive.org/download/hearingsregardin1947aunit/hearingsregardin1947aunit_bw.pdf Hearings regarding the Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry] (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947), pp. 539-540</ref> Trumbo refused to testify, and spent 11 months in prison for [[contempt of Congress]]. He, along with nine other Communists convicted of contempt of Congress, are known as the [[Hollywood Ten]] for allegedly being blacklisted by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and had difficulties getting scriptwriting jobs and often worked under a pseudonym.  However, after receiving full writing credits on such movies as [[Spartacus (movie)|Spartacus]] and [[Exodus (movie)|Exodus]], he was reinstated into the Writers' Guild of America.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874308/bio The Internet Movie Database]</ref>

Trumbo's last writing credit was a 1971 screenplay for a movie version of ''Johnny Got His Gun''.  Trumbo died of lung cancer in 1976.

Trumbo's last writing credit was a 1971 screenplay for a movie version of ''Johnny Got His Gun''.  Trumbo died of lung cancer in 1976.