“What are you trying to do, turn the American cinema into a communist cesspool? Remember, America is a harbor and asylum, the refuge of the ages for the Hebrews, a land where there has never been a pogrom, a land where never a Jew has been killed because he was a Jew—a land that has no Pale, a land where worthy, intelligent and characterful Jews are as respected and honored as all other men.
“Your unspeakable crime in importing Eisenstein should be as much resented and resisted by decent Jewish Americans as it will be by all the other loyal Americans. It won’t take any Samson to pull down the Bolshevik temple you are starting, and at this rate it won’t be long now. Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.”
(Signed) Major Frank Pease,
President,
Hollywood Technical Directors’
Institute.”
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