Word: anti-fascist
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...court held, 5-3, that the Attorney General may not list.an organization as subversive without a hearing. This was in the case of the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee, the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Inc., and the International Workers Order, Inc., all tagged as Communist-front groups. Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the majority opinion, held that the Attorney General's listing was "arbitrary...
Dmytryk finally left the party when he was disciplined for cutting "undramatic" anti-fascist speeches from Cornered. He had refused to answer the committee's questions in 1947, he said, because it seemed a matter of civil rights. The Korean war made him doubt the sincerity of the Communist peace propaganda; the latest round of spy trials decided him. Said Dmytryk with the surprised air of a man discovering sin for the first time: "This is treason and it means the party is committing treason. For this reason, I am willing to talk today...
Slight, sallow Valdo Magnani, 38, college-trained in economics and philosophy, had joined the party in 1936, fought in Fascist Italy's army (as an artillery captain) until Mussolini's downfall, then switched to the partisan anti-Fascist forces. In 1946 he emerged as Reggio Emilia's ace Communist organizer. Militant, tireless, persuasive, he gained 10,000 new party members for his province in the past two years, a time of dwindling ranks for Italian Communism in general. In 1948 he was handily elected to the national Chamber of Deputies...
...American imperialism and its lackey Chiang Kaishek, will certainly succeed in driving out the United States aggressors and recover Taiwan [Formosa] and all other territories that belong to China ... As a result of the victories of the great Socialist October Revolution of the Soviet Union, of the anti-Fascist second World War, and of the great revolution of the Chinese people, all the oppressed nations and people of the East have awakened and organized themselves...
Good reporter though he is, Cooke chooses to forget how few Americans were Communists even in the hungry '30s. Nor does he ever point up clearly the important difference between U.S. intellectuals who flirted with Marxism, and Communists who were committed to treason. His notion that the anti-Fascist climate of the '30s somehow establishes the need for present sympathy with traitors is charity gone wild and mars a fine journalistic performance...