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...street, the prestige in the "National Leader" title of the CP runs high to those ideologically deep scarlet. For years, Budenz reports, William Foster continually sought to anticipate policy changes (they have been know to be drastic) and "jump the Line" on Browder. Through this period the Editor of the Daily Worker may have been near to getting the goods, but from the standpoint of documentary evidence, he still has to prove that he was not extremely far. It is difficult to swallow cloak-and-dagger melodrama in a land of milk and honey
...hard-drinking Bill Dunne, the "Wild Bull from Montana," had come into the Party by way of the I.W.W. He had led striking copper miners in Butte, textile workers in Passaic, coal miners in West Virginia. During the '20s he had plotted with William Z. Foster and Earl Browder to dominate U.S. Communists. In nearly three decades in the class war, he had braved the cops, employer goons and deputies of a dozen states; had danced and quaffed champagne with beautiful Russian women in Stalin's Moscow...
...Communist -turned -book -peddler sat uneasily before a Washington microphone. Reason for Earl Browder's discomfort: a battery of four newsmen, a little less than friendly, a little more than anxious to interview him on Mutual's Meet the Press program...
...editors of the NR boasted of a scoop. Chiefly responsible for it is the NR's nervous, grey-thatched Treasurer Daniel Mebane, a good friend of Earl's brother Bill who was onetime president and business manager of the Communist Daily Worker. When Earl Browder returned from his mysterious mission to Moscow (TIME, July 8), Earl and NR Editor Bruce Bliven went into a huddle. Bliven outlined a series of controversial subjects Browder might write about, some of them designed to indicate what Browder was up to. Browder crossed out all the tough ones, agreed to write about...
...editors drew up an ad which, they trusted, would explain everything. Conclusion: "Needless to say, the New Republic, which stands for liberal democracy, does not share Mr. Browder's communist philosophy...