The Waldorf Statement was a two-page press release issued on 25 November 1947, by Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. The Statement was a response to the contempt of Congress charges against the so-called "Hollywood Ten".
Participants The names of the 48 men who attended the meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel were printed in the Motion Picture Herald and Daily Variety, the film industry's primary trade publications. The principal participants who formulated the Waldorf Statement included: Louis B. Mayer: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Harry Cohn: Columbia Pictures Spyros Skouras: 20th Century Fox Nicholas Schenck: Loews Theatres Barney Balaban: Paramount Pictures Samuel Goldwyn: Samuel Goldwyn Company Albert Warner: Warner Bros. William Goetz: Universal-International Eric Johnston: Association of Motion Picture Producers and Motion Picture Association of America Mendel Silberberg: lawyer for Association of Motion Picture Producers James F. Byrnes: former United States Secretary of State Dore Schary: RKO Pictures
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