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The United States Government's Information Service Libraries were directed to remove from their shelves 25 books — as their eight authors were presumed to be Communists. The authors were Earl Browder and William Z. Foster, successive leaders of the United States Communist Party, Ilya Ehrenburg, Soviet propagandist, Trofim Lysenko, Soviet Scientist, Maxim Gorki, Russian revolutionary writer, and John Reed, Agnes Smedley and Anna Louise Strong. Messrs Gorki and Reed, and Miss Smedley were not living. These were the first names to be given out officially in the controversy about removal of books from American overseas libraries. The writers were banned by Government on a demand by Senator Joseph McCarthy that thirty thousand Communist books had to be taken off the shelves of American libraries. In addition to the 25 banned titles, many other books had been purged in accordance with a new black-list not made public. Local librarians in some of the 189 libraries removed large numbers in over-zealous execution of directives sent from Washington. Dr. Robert L. Johnson said there were two or three instances in which "eight or ten books were burned". He said a directive was sent immediately saying no more books were to be destroyed.
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