User talk:Lhoughteling27

I don't understand the editing process so I am "posting" this here: It should be noted in the WP article about the Bengal Famine of 1943 that Howard Fast wrote a novel, The Pledge (1988), in which the hero, Bruce Bacon, an innocent, good-hearted middle-class American war correspondent, is sent after V-E day to Calcutta, where he meets Indians -- communists and they make no bones about it -- who make him suspicious of British behavior during the recent famine that took at least 1.5 million lives. Specifically, he comes to the conclusion that the British not only "did nothing" in the face of the famine, but encouraged it as a way of terrorizing independence-minded Indians. Before he can write and publish his conclusions, Bacon is bum-rushed out of British India; and when, back in the postwar US, he starts trying to tell what he has seen and learned, he is hunted by the anti-communist inquisition, called before HUAC, tried, convicted and imprisoned.