Every American a prisoner Chaplin's assertion
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Date
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October 22, 1955
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Description
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Charlie Chaplin, a British comedian and film producer, claimed in a cable addressed to friends in New York from his house in Corsier Sur Vevey, Switzerland, that every American was now "a prisoner on probation with a chain around his leg."
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Scholarly Significance
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The Communist Mr. John Macdonald, who was just deported from the United States after serving a prison sentence on allegations of trying to subvert the American government, was the recipient of the letter Robeson sent.
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Cataloguer
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Mikako Maeda
