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barnaby had an imaginary leprechaun friend, mr. o'malley.and in fact, barnaby was more popular than pm, so when pm died, it continues. in other parts of the daily press. >> this gives a new meaning to the infantile leftism. [laughter] >> first of all i was wondering, that's a presentation. i was wondering if there were two things i want to ask about, one was the eternal discussion within pm around the hitler-stalin pact and had the editorial stats are coped with the change in policy. and of course, my area of interest, which is how pm was treated later during what happened to pm contenders during the mccarthy era, if you could comment on those two points. thank you. >> first of course, the pakaf and for pm came into existence, so by the time transform was published there was a tactic the so many people who would later be accused of being communists, that when ingersoll announced to the staff committee brought the whole staff together and said, we are going to war. this is january 1941. this is after already hinting at it from the earliest pa

barnaby had an imaginary leprechaun. it continued in other parts of the press. >> this gives new meaning to infantile leftism. >> i was wondering there were two things i wanted to ask about. one was the discussion within p.m. around the hitler/stalin pact and how the editorial stats coped with the change in policy and how p.m. was treated later. what happened during the mccarthy era. >> the pact happened before p.m. went into existence. when it was published was an established fact. you will see so many people would later be accused of being communists. when ingersoll announced to the staff that he brought the staff together, already hinting of it from the earliest -- when the paper existed, if there was this gigantic communist party faction which it was later accused of being, it would have been mass opposition. in opposition to that campaign to purge little it was largely a canard, people wanted to see it destroyed before it existed. a very ambitious james wexler, trying to make his career. making the exit by great com