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| | Salon Movies | Busting heads and blaming Reds |
 | | The studios had the same sentiment after the war, but by 1946 others in town were decrying Communist infiltration of the movie industry. |
 | | With the threat of censorship on one side and the possibility of a public boycott of movies on the other, and with New York banks, which lent heavily to the studios during the Depression, pressuring them to avoid anything that might impair their ability to repay the loans, the producers were in a corner. |
 | | In November 1947 the studio heads issued the "Waldorf Statement," named after the New York hotel where they drafted it, which announced, among other things, their intention to no longer employ the Hollywood 10, nor anyone else who refused to cooperate with the HUAC investigation, nor any Communist. |
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