In 1944 the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals was founded by a group of film makers, including Walt Disney, King Vidor, Sam Wood and Leo McCarey. It included John Wayne and Gary Cooper among its supporters.
In 1944 the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals was founded by a group of film makers, including Walt Disney, King Vidor, Sam Wood and Leo McCarey.
Mission
We believe in, and like, the American way of life: the liberty and freedom which generations before us have fought to create and preserve; the freedom to speak, to think, to live, to worship, to work, and to govern ourselves as individuals, as free men; the right to succeed or fail as free men, according to the measure of our ability and our strength.
Believing in these things, we find ourselves in sharp revolt against a rising tide of communism, fascism, and kindred beliefs, that seek by subversive means to undermine and change this way of life; groups that have forfeited their right to exist in this country of ours, because they seek to achieve their change by means other than the vested procedure of the ballot and to deny the right of the majority opinion of the people to rule.
Walt Disney Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.
