Word: browderism
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...underworld, rawboned Martin Dies of Texas, First Whip of the Red Hunting pack, never put on the stand a real, live, honest-to-goodness Communist. At his House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing last week in Washington he could have reached out and touched one: wispy, unobtrusive Earl Browder, general secretary (at $40 a week) of the Communist Party, its 1936 Presidential candidate...
Unfortunately for cigar-chewing Congressman Dies (last week he switched to gum), Witness Browder was under wraps. His pipe line to Moscow had failed to inform him of the Communazi non-aggression pact in time to prepare a U. S. explanation in keeping with Comintern ethics. Last week his explanation sounded like something out of a fairy tale: "It [the pact] caused dismay in Tokyo . . . broke the Axis . . . reopens the open door in China . . . lessens the danger, of Fascist penetration in South America . . . is one more step in reaching the Marxian ideal of Communism...
...rest of his testimony Comrade Browder warmed over his story, told in 1936. of the offer of a man named Davidson (who said he represented a half-dozen rich Republicans) to enrich the party by $250,000 if it named President Roosevelt on its 1936 ticket, declared the party had turned toward conservatism since 1935, discoursed on its tenets, tactics, tanglements...
Damaging to Earl Browder's story of Communist innocence undented was the testimony of his former comrade, beefy Benjamin Gitlow, ousted from the general secretaryship of the party...
Meat dealers noted with satisfaction that only the meat and oil industries (as in 1914) are in a position to handle increased production immediately without sweeping rearrangement of facilities. In Chicago, sardonic Earl Browder, No. 1 U. S. Communist, told a rally of 12,000 sympathizers that Poland could yet win Soviet aid if Polish workers would oust their present leaders. With Germany's war machine in motion, Communist Earl Browder changed his rationalization of the Nazi-Soviet pact from "a wonderful contribution to peace" to "the only possibility of a decisive blow for peace...