LETTERS Bedouins and Jews
Sir: The total dominance of the American film industry Ly the Jewish Establishment, past and present, is admirably related by William Cash (Kings of the deal', 29 Octo- ber). We should be grateful for this in the light of the past. Since Hitler was anti-Semitic Hollywood did not join the powerful Ameri- can isolationists, but produced a constant stream of anti-Nazi, and therefore, fortu- itously, pro-British films. After the war McCarthy may have discovered a few Reds hiding in Hollywood boudoirs, but Stalin's anti-Semitism meant that they remained a minority.
William Cash illustrates the attempts by the pre-war studio bosses to copy the mores of the old East Coast Establishment, and he notes that this is no longer so. In fact, one can detect a distinct hostility. The same industry which produced the elegant 'high society' comedies, featuring a Cary Grant or a David Niven, will now systematically por- tray well-to-do gentiles as caricatures, and their homes as hotel lobbies. This is not done in ignorance. It is just reverse discrimination.
Claus von Bulow
109 Onslow Square, London SW7
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