The Writers Guild of America West has given the late blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo screenplay credit for the 1953 film "Roman Holiday".

The WGA West made the announcement Monday, disclosing that Trumbo had been given first-position screenplay credit with Ian McLellan Hunter and John Dighton. Trumbo also received "story by" credit.

"It is not in our power to erase the mistakes or the suffering of the past", said WGA West president Chris Keyser. "But we can make amends, we can pledge not to fall prey again to the dangerous power of fear or to the impulse to censor, even if that pledge is really only a hope."

"even if that pledge is really only a hope" -- what an extraordinary and revealing cop-out.

You could, Mr. Keyser, pay the thousands and thousands of writers whose monies, like the monies of Mr. Trumbo’s, the Writers Guild has for twenty years been unlawfully accessing and disappearing.

But, unfortunately, you shredded the accounting.

Or so you believed.

Each of the total amounts of the royalties listed below represents, on ROMAN HOLLIDAY (1953), only John Dighton's one-third share of ten percent (10%) of one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount collected in only one quarter in one year in one country (Germany) for the screenwriters (John Dighton, Ian McLellan Hunter and Dalton Trumbo) of ROMAN HOLLIDAY.

And represents, on THE SWAN (1956), ten percent (10%) of one hundred percent (100%) of the total amount collected in only one quarter in one year in one country (Germany) for Dighton, the sole screenwriter of THE SWAN.

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