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...should therefore interest you to know that this illegitimate child of yours came of educational age this week, hit the headlines in Boston papers by presenting Democratic ex-Governor Ely of Massachusetts, Communist Earl Browder, and Fascist Lawrence Dennis in this Republican bailiwick debating "What lies ahead for Capitalism." Twenty-five hundred packed the hall built for 1,500; hundreds were turned away; people came from all over the metropolitan area and from points as distant as Concord, N. H. and Providence, R. I. The air was charged, the argument occasionally abusive, but no blood was spilt...
...filed with the Supreme Court a brief again denying that it believes in, teaches, advises or advocates overthrowing the U. S. Government. As everyone knows, this statement reflects the policy adopted at the Third International's congress of 1935 at Moscow (which No. 1 U. S. Communist Earl Browder attended) exhorting Reds the world over to throw in their lot with liberals for the present, work with them in Popular Fronts until such time-as real Red revolutions become practicable...
Unique among followers of Karl Marx in the U. S. are the 3.000 members of the Socialist Labor Party. Unlike either Norman Thomas' plain Socialists or Earl Browder's Communists, the Socialist-Laborites are incorrigibly consistent in refusing to make any temporary concessions to capitalism in the hope of long-range gains. Last week the Socialist-Laborites achieved the absolute in consistency. The party's Weekly People printed an open letter to Labor's recently freed Hero Tom Mooney...
Last week the No. 1 Communist of the U. S., Earl Browder, explained why the Communist Party had suddenly changed from a loud opponent of U. S. militarism into a strident exponent of Rearmament. Now that the dictators have triumphed at Munich, he declared, "A fascist world can be prevented only, in the words of the manifesto of the Communist International on Nov. 7, 'with the aid of ... governments which are ready to use armed force...
Thus did Communist Browder join a growing chorus of U. S. radicals and liberals who in recent months have forsworn pacifism to espouse preparedness.* Result is that Franklin Roosevelt's Rearmament program now faces little opposition outside Congress save from a few groups of diehard pacifists...