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...JOHN ABRAHAM...
Last week the Browder star was shining even brighter. Off to Russia to join Fallen Angel Browder was his most ardent disciple, a shy, little-known, well-heeled U.S. businessman named Abraham A. Heller, who was also the longtime financial angel of U.S. radicals...
...years Abraham Heller had moved unobtrusively in the shadowy half-world of the U.S. far left wing. Born in Minsk, Russia, 71 years ago, he turned up in the U.S. in 1891, started a jewel-importing business, married a New York girl. He made money fast. Soon he opened a Paris branch, moved to France...
When the infant Bolshevist regime started its climb to power, Abraham Heller was quick to give a helping hand. Again radicalism paid off. In 1919 he set himself up as Russia's purchasing agent in the U.S., claimed $200 million in gold to start trade relations rolling. In 1920, already a Party member, he financed the first U.S. Communist convention...
...when the great schism came, and Earl Browder fell, Abraham Heller resigned from the Party, cut off his financial support. While Browder and Heller were getting together on schemes for a new Soviet-U.S. publishing venture, the dead-broke Daily Worker began beating its drums for new contributors...