04-10-2012, 06:08 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-10-2012, 06:49 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
Yes, thanks Adele....a very good and infamous speech by Chaplin...and the one more than most of his other actions/words/art which got him in 'hot water' with the reactionary authorities in the USA who eventually went after him for taxes he didn't own and then blocked his entry into the USA. He chose to live the end of his life in Switzerland with this wife and children. He was too moral a man to have in the USA, sadly. :mexican: Of course the FBI spied on him and suspected him of being a 'red' for his humanity and care for same.....some things never change....this still goes on with one change...add DHS and perhaps the electronic spy agencies to the mix.
Chaplin's Great Dictator was anti-fascist before it was fashionable in High Places http://ics-www.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/ex...obCole.pdf
Newly released documents show that MI5, the British spy agency, helped the FBI retrieve information on the silent film star Charlie Chaplin.
Classified files released to the public Friday at the British National Archives show that the FBI asked MI5 for information to help the agency ban him from the US during the early 1950s says the Guardian.
The information, gathered mainly through eavesdropping, suggests that the FBI asked the British spy agency to find out Chaplin's orgins, according to the Independent.
Yet, British authorities appeared unable to find any records of the star's birth, which was believed to have happened in South London in 1889 - just four days before the birth of Adolph Hitler whom he parodied in "The Great Dictator."
According to the Daily Mail, MI5 officers concluded: "It would seem that Chaplin was either not born in this country or that his name at birth was other than those mentioned," leading to further speculation that "Charlie Chaplin" was simply an alias.
The documents also reveal that both spy agencies sought in vain to find Chaplin's connection with the Communist party and the Soviet Union.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," the Indepenent quoted an MI5 liaison officer in Washington as writing in 1952.
According to the Guardian the MI5 report concludes that: "It may be that Chaplin is a communist sympathiser but on the information before us he would appear to be no more than a 'progressive', or radical."
Chaplin was banned from the US in 1953 and lived the rest of his life in Vevey, Switzerland.
Moral of the story: If you don't have a FBI file, you are likely not doing enough good work for the People or the Planet.
Chaplin's Great Dictator was anti-fascist before it was fashionable in High Places http://ics-www.leeds.ac.uk/papers/pmt/ex...obCole.pdf
Newly released documents show that MI5, the British spy agency, helped the FBI retrieve information on the silent film star Charlie Chaplin.
Classified files released to the public Friday at the British National Archives show that the FBI asked MI5 for information to help the agency ban him from the US during the early 1950s says the Guardian.
The information, gathered mainly through eavesdropping, suggests that the FBI asked the British spy agency to find out Chaplin's orgins, according to the Independent.
Yet, British authorities appeared unable to find any records of the star's birth, which was believed to have happened in South London in 1889 - just four days before the birth of Adolph Hitler whom he parodied in "The Great Dictator."
According to the Daily Mail, MI5 officers concluded: "It would seem that Chaplin was either not born in this country or that his name at birth was other than those mentioned," leading to further speculation that "Charlie Chaplin" was simply an alias.
The documents also reveal that both spy agencies sought in vain to find Chaplin's connection with the Communist party and the Soviet Union.
"Chaplin has given funds to communist front organisations … He has been involved in paternity and abortion cases," the Indepenent quoted an MI5 liaison officer in Washington as writing in 1952.
According to the Guardian the MI5 report concludes that: "It may be that Chaplin is a communist sympathiser but on the information before us he would appear to be no more than a 'progressive', or radical."
Chaplin was banned from the US in 1953 and lived the rest of his life in Vevey, Switzerland.
Moral of the story: If you don't have a FBI file, you are likely not doing enough good work for the People or the Planet.
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"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass