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against your own life and your own way of living and your own philosophy. You love the good things of life. You're a capitalist to your fingertips, and yet you are supporting causes that are out to destroy you. This is true of all of you liberals.”

We had a very good time together. He was a very engaging man. He said, “You say you'll publish books on the right side. If I ever come to you with a book on the right side, if it's good enough, will you publish it?" I said, “You're damned right I will,” shaking a little bit, wondering what was going to come. Well, we parted, with some affection. I liked him. We had many roots in common.

He got one or two people out of trouble for me--you know, people who were under a cloud with “Red Channels.” He saved the life of John Garfield for a while for instance. He moved in. When George believed in somebody, if I would ever convince him that this fellow was not a Communist, he would move heaven and earth and he was powerful enough to do it. He got a couple of people off that blacklist. It was shameful to have to go to him, but it was very useful.

Anyhow, some time later that fall, the phone rang one day suddenly. It was George Sokolsky. He said, “Do you remember our conversation? I said if I ever brought you a book on the right side, you said, if it was good, that you would publish it.” Well, I started shaking...what was he going to come up with? He said, “Supposing I was to bring you a book, a story about the FBI, giving the good side of