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’ sé * i Public ‘Reactign= Prompts Sinatra = mwve a i fo Fire Maltz Frank Sinatra is paying off Al- bert Maltz and simultaneously firing him off the assignment to screenplay “The Execution Of Prt Slovik” - following the tidal wave of reaction against Sinatra’s ac- tion in hiring the member of “the Hollywood Ten” who refused to answer whether he was or is a Communist when haled before the House Un-American Activities Committee more than a decade ago. Sinatra, in a statement issued Friday, sai ~ tt few of the reaction of my , (Continued on Pigeon 4 (Continued from Page ib shye = riends and t er- ican public, I have instructed my attorneys to make a settlement with Albert Maltz and to inform him that he will not write the - screenplay for ‘The Execution Of Private Slovik.t “I had thought the major ton- sideration was whether or not the resuiting script would be in the best interests of the United States, Since my conversations with Mr. Maltz had indicated that he had an affirmative, pro-American approach to the story, and since I felt fully cavable as producer of enforcing such standards, I have defended my hiring of Mr. Maltz. “But the American public h indicated it feels the morality iring Albert Maltz is the mo rucial matter, and I will acee bis majority opinion.” After hiring Maltz, Sinatra was enounced in many quarters and subsequently took trade ads on March 28, declaring, among other views, “Il am in complete accord with the statement... by J. D, Nicola of the Catholic Legion of Decency, who said, ‘The Legion evaluates films on the basis of art, not the artists’. Last week Nicola chserved that Sinatra’s “inference was unfair”: that the Legion, while it evaluates "LOGS, “on the ba f art, not the NED artists,” nevertheless is very un-' ALL INFO TION CONTAL - likely to approve such a deal 3 UN SIL) that made with Malis, cae HEREIN 1S UNE}A RY LL "~. Nicola also noted that asa mem. DATE ~-So hint in bergof the lay advisory “of! the Zegion he was not at any | me | ' spegiking for the policy of th re- ‘i vie y group "on ‘any’: fie, _ WG - . —e = ied onan ii . SEARCHED. .. ---p~ vertauizevend ; “Daily Variety® ae 9 i620 ’ APR 21; Ce ‘(E \ 138g —