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Andrew Heiskell:

I can't remember, I can't remember.

Q:

Did Time Inc. do anything about the fact that they were Communist, or Time Inc. just realized that they were?

Andrew Heiskell:

That we realized that they were and I'm just saying, underlying the straight union issues was this pro-Communist thing. And by that time Bullitt had his famous piece, Churchill had given his Iron Curtain speech and-

Q:

Whittaker Chambers?

Andrew Heiskell:

Whittaker Chambers-

Q:

Where does he fall into this?

Andrew Heiskell:

Well, it's funny, that never seemed to relate itself to the union matter.

Q:

You mean they never took that cudgel up saying, you know, being anti-Whittaker Chambers?

Andrew Heiskell:

Oh, being anti-Whittaker Chambers, but that was practically everybody in those days, you know. Anyway; we came very close to a strike and somehow or the other--I guess we traded money-to get out of the union shop. And by and large our policy with regard to the union has always been, “We'll settle for money but we





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