Editing Johnny Got His Gun (section)

==Publication==
Serialized in the ''[[Daily Worker]]'' in March 1940,<ref>{{cite web|first=Fred|last=de Fossard|url=http://www.spiked-online.com/review_of_books/article/a-triumph-of-anti-war-literature/16751#.WzDMRxJKiT8|title=A Triumph of Anti-War Literature|website=[[Spiked (magazine)|Spiked]]|location=London, England|date=March 2015|access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref> published by the [[Communist Party USA]] to which Trumbo belonged,<ref name=Billingsly1998/> the book became "a rally point for the [[political left]]" which had [[Opposition to World War II|opposed involvement in World War II]] during the period of the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact]] (1939–1941) when the USSR maintained a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany. Shortly after the [[Operation Barbarossa|1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union]], Trumbo and his publishers decided to suspend reprinting the book until the end of the war, due to the Communist Party USA's support for the war so long as the US was allied with the Soviet Union against Nazi Germany.<ref name=Billingsly1998>Kenneth Lloyd Billingsly (1998). Hollywood Party: How Communism Seduced the American Film Industry in the 1930s and 1940s. Rocklin, CA: Forum/Prime</ref>

In his introduction to a 1959 reprinting, Trumbo describes receiving letters from right-wing [[United States non-interventionism|isolationists]] requesting copies of the book when it was out of print. Trumbo contacted the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] and turned these letters over to them. Trumbo regretted this decision, which he later called "foolish," after two FBI agents showed up at his home and it became clear that "their interest lay not in the letters but in me."<ref name="JohnnyCitadel">{{cite book|first=Dalton|last=Trumbo|author-link=Dalton Trumbo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnnMLLk2uU4C&pg=PA5|title=Johnny Got His Gun|publisher=[[Citadel Press]]|location=New York City|date=1940|page=5|isbn=978-0553274325|access-date=December 30, 2014}}</ref>