Word: browderism
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...There is about as much chance of such an agreement as of Earl Browder being elected president of the American Chamber of Commerce...
...spake Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party in the U. S., when he was questioned at the Institute of Public Affairs in Charlottesville, Va. last July 5. Comrade Browder up to last week's end had not been elevated by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. That the U. S. S. R. and Nazi Germany had made up, a shaken world knew...
Befuddled, appalled, embarrassed were Earl Browder and his U. S. Comrades. The Party press went first into a silence, then into a great writhing (see p. 32). Back to Manhattan from vacation hastened Comrade Browder to set the capitalist press aright .in his.ninth-floor eyrie. Said he with aplomb: 1) "The announcement of the Pact has done no injury whatsoever to the Communist Party cause here. I know my Party"; 2) the Soviet Union and the Communist Party in the U. S. have neither abandoned nor compromised their fight on world Fascism; 3) the Pact constitutes "a distinct contribution...
Next day Mr. Browder's Daily Worker, along with his apologia, printed the text of a treaty minus escape, complete with commitments against further alliances aimed at either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. From then until week's end, the Daily Worker mirrored the dilemma into which Comrade Stalin had pitched Communist Parties of all nations. Its editorialists and columnists preached continued distrust of Nazi Hitler, continued cooperation with anti-Fascist men of goodwill, even a continued boycott of German goods which Soviet Russia was now pledged to buy. As a faithful organ of Soviet doctrine...
...press in its dissection of the Communists all but ignored the plight of Fritz Kuhn's German-American Bundsters, who have long been nourished on Red bait. Fritz Kuhn took the line that Earl Browder used: what happened in Europe made no difference to Nazis...