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...past ten years, New Yorkers have been hearing a lot from Mrs. Bella Dodd. A former political science teacher at Manhattan's Hunter College, she was a founder of the Redlined New York Teachers Union, in 1943 openly joined the Communist Party, and worked her way up to its national executive committee. There, she served her cause at the top of her lungs. She picketed, argued, denounced -until in 1949, the party suddenly expelled her for "fascist and anti-working-class activities...
Last week a remorseful Bella Dodd ("God help me for what I did!") appeared as a witness before a Senate subcommittee investigating Communism in U.S. schools...
...Bella V. Dodd is a fiery, black-haired lawyer who once taught political science at Manhattan's Hunter College. She helped found the stridently left-wing New York Teachers' Union, in 1944 openly joined the Communist Party. To the Daily Worker, she was "tops, A-1 in'party circles," was even elevated to the national committee of the Communist Party. Then, in 1949, her career suddenly fell apart. The party expelled her for "fascist and anti-working-class activity." One of her former colleagues spat in her face...
Last week Bella Dodd announced that after months of instruction from Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, she had been baptized conditionally and returned to the Roman Catholic Church. She also had a warning for New Yorkers: her old teachers' union is riddled with Reds...
...February morning in 1945 a posse of 150 Garibaldis set out before dawn, slogged through snowy upland pastures toward Bella's headquarters. As they approached, they hid their weapons under their overcoats, and told the sleepy guards that they were partisans looking for shelter. Once inside, they shot and killed Bolla and three others. They looted the Osoppo supplies' and later rounded up and killed 16 more Osoppo...