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Three years ago Hungarian-born Eugene Varga wrote a book which, although violently hostile towards America and Britain, held that there was no likelihood of a depression in the Western countries before 1955. About a year later, the Politburo realized what Varga was saying. He had not only contradicted Marx, but blasted the premises of Soviet foreign policy. Party henchmen went to work (TIME, Feb. 2, 1948). He was dismissed from his job as head of the Academy of Science's Institute of World Economics and World Politics. He was told to recant. Instead, he pluckily announced: "I cannot...
...Russians now had printed forms for these occasions. Wrote Varga: "I formed a whole chain of errors of a reformist trend-which naturally also means of a cosmopolitan trend-because they beautify capitalism . . . [My errors] have caused great harm and compelled our economists to return to questions long ago correctly solved by Marxism-Leninism...My mistake was that I did not recognize right away that my critics were correct. But better late than never...
...taken there after she tried to commit suicide. Two weeks ago she threw herself into the Surrey Canal...
When the last regional International Labor Organization (I.L.O.) conference of American states was held in Mexico City three years ago, most workers' delegates were Communist or Communist-led. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexico's Communist-line labor boss, ran the show...
Lewis Douglas, 54, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was coming along fine: doctors now thought that they could save his left eye, which was snagged by a wind-blown fishhook a month ago on the Test River. Leading off a long report to the State Department, Douglas cracked: "As I see the problem from my bed, and through...