Word: apologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WALTER WINCHELL AN APOLOGIST...
...liberal journalism focused again last week on the Nation (circ. 35,106). Wrote ex-Communist Granville Hicks in the liberal Jewish Commentary: "However paradoxical it appears, the magazine that calls itself 'America's leading liberal weekly since 1865' ... in some sense serves today as an apologist for Soviet Russia...
...carry on. Last week, in a Communist Shanghai that was virtually deserted by Americans, 31-year-old John William Powell was still publishing the Review. Old J.B., who called no man master, would have been surprised and shocked at its subservient tone. Son Bill had become an outright apologist for Communism...
Reds' Friend. But whatever else he was, Claude Pepper was not permanent. He began to skid. He skidded with Henry Wallace away to the far left. He became an apologist for Russia's foreign policy. He went abroad, called on Stalin, promptly urged that the U.S. advance Russia a $6 billion loan. He proposed that the U.S. "destroy every atom bomb we have" and all atomic facilities. He sometimes out-talked even Wallace in denunciation of the U.S.'s toughening foreign policy...
Hitting the Road. As he rolled through the Central Florida citrus belt last week, Congressman Smathers was doing everything possible to label Pepper a proCommunist, an apologist for Joe Stalin and a backer of that Yankee monstrosity, the FEPC. He ominously quoted Lenin as saying that the "best way to communize any country is to socialize its medical profession," and then implied that Pepper was a Leninist for supporting the Administration's national health-insurance bill. Smathers' supporters carried dislike of their opponent to the dining table, where the gag was to say "Please pass the black salt...