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Scott Detrow

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Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He had never been convicted of a crime. And that was the way that they deported various people that they didn't want in America, like Mafiosi. They would get a Mafiosi convicted on income tax evasion and deport him to Italy because he'd been convicted of income tax evasion. They couldn't get him on anything more lethal than that, but that was enough to have him deported.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He had never been convicted of a crime. And that was the way that they deported various people that they didn't want in America, like Mafiosi. They would get a Mafiosi convicted on income tax evasion and deport him to Italy because he'd been convicted of income tax evasion. They couldn't get him on anything more lethal than that, but that was enough to have him deported.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He had never been convicted of a crime. And that was the way that they deported various people that they didn't want in America, like Mafiosi. They would get a Mafiosi convicted on income tax evasion and deport him to Italy because he'd been convicted of income tax evasion. They couldn't get him on anything more lethal than that, but that was enough to have him deported.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

They could have done the same thing with Chaplin, except he'd never been convicted of anything, including income tax evasion. And believe me, they had gone over his corporate income taxes, his personal income taxes with fine-tooth combs for a decade, and they couldn't find a dime that he'd underpaid. So they actually had no legal justification for excluding him from coming back to the country.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

They could have done the same thing with Chaplin, except he'd never been convicted of anything, including income tax evasion. And believe me, they had gone over his corporate income taxes, his personal income taxes with fine-tooth combs for a decade, and they couldn't find a dime that he'd underpaid. So they actually had no legal justification for excluding him from coming back to the country.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

They could have done the same thing with Chaplin, except he'd never been convicted of anything, including income tax evasion. And believe me, they had gone over his corporate income taxes, his personal income taxes with fine-tooth combs for a decade, and they couldn't find a dime that he'd underpaid. So they actually had no legal justification for excluding him from coming back to the country.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because his one of his core beliefs was that nationalism was a lethal Disease and it led to things like Adolf Hitler and Nazism in World War two a friend of his named Max Eastman who knew him quite well over a 40-year period a Good writer who started out as a socialist and ended up writing for Weymouth Buckley's National Review Said that what people didn't understand about Charlie is

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because his one of his core beliefs was that nationalism was a lethal Disease and it led to things like Adolf Hitler and Nazism in World War two a friend of his named Max Eastman who knew him quite well over a 40-year period a Good writer who started out as a socialist and ended up writing for Weymouth Buckley's National Review Said that what people didn't understand about Charlie is

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Because his one of his core beliefs was that nationalism was a lethal Disease and it led to things like Adolf Hitler and Nazism in World War two a friend of his named Max Eastman who knew him quite well over a 40-year period a Good writer who started out as a socialist and ended up writing for Weymouth Buckley's National Review Said that what people didn't understand about Charlie is

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

was that he was born in England and made his fortune in America. And if the reverse had been true, and he'd been born in America and made his fortune in England, he never would have become an English citizen either. He simply didn't believe in the kind of patriotism that is knee-jerk in most countries. He didn't partake of it. He considered himself, his phrase was, I'm a citizen of the world.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

was that he was born in England and made his fortune in America. And if the reverse had been true, and he'd been born in America and made his fortune in England, he never would have become an English citizen either. He simply didn't believe in the kind of patriotism that is knee-jerk in most countries. He didn't partake of it. He considered himself, his phrase was, I'm a citizen of the world.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

was that he was born in England and made his fortune in America. And if the reverse had been true, and he'd been born in America and made his fortune in England, he never would have become an English citizen either. He simply didn't believe in the kind of patriotism that is knee-jerk in most countries. He didn't partake of it. He considered himself, his phrase was, I'm a citizen of the world.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He got his back up. He was enraged. He was furious. And he didn't want to be a guest at the party if he was disinvited.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He got his back up. He was enraged. He was furious. And he didn't want to be a guest at the party if he was disinvited.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He got his back up. He was enraged. He was furious. And he didn't want to be a guest at the party if he was disinvited.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Oh, God, yes, yes. Would he have done this on his own? No, I don't think there's any scenario under which he would have left America on his own. He had a wife. He had four young children at this point with Una. They were all under the age of, I believe, eight. They were all, you know, going to school. He had an infrastructure. He had his own studio on La Brea Avenue.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Oh, God, yes, yes. Would he have done this on his own? No, I don't think there's any scenario under which he would have left America on his own. He had a wife. He had four young children at this point with Una. They were all under the age of, I believe, eight. They were all, you know, going to school. He had an infrastructure. He had his own studio on La Brea Avenue.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

Oh, God, yes, yes. Would he have done this on his own? No, I don't think there's any scenario under which he would have left America on his own. He had a wife. He had four young children at this point with Una. They were all under the age of, I believe, eight. They were all, you know, going to school. He had an infrastructure. He had his own studio on La Brea Avenue.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He was part owner of United Artists, a major releasing organization. And he was 63 years old. And he figured he probably had 10 more years. He was not about to leave. He lived in one house in California for his entire life. He'd been in one house for 30-odd years. He was not a guy who pulled up stakes quickly or easily or hopped around. So he was going to be a lifer in Southern California.

Fresh Air
The Exile Of Charlie Chaplin

He was part owner of United Artists, a major releasing organization. And he was 63 years old. And he figured he probably had 10 more years. He was not about to leave. He lived in one house in California for his entire life. He'd been in one house for 30-odd years. He was not a guy who pulled up stakes quickly or easily or hopped around. So he was going to be a lifer in Southern California.