Word: browders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Communist Party (spring model '46) hopefully held its breath. On Friday, ex-Comrade Earl Browder crossed over into Soviet territory at the frontier station of Vainikkala, Finland. Then & there he vanished. What had happened to him? The C.P. hoped for the worst...
Ever since haggard, bitter Earl Browder had been dethroned as U.S. Communist boss last July, for deviation from the party line, he has been the Party's No. i anathema. A withering pamphlet entitled "The Path of a Renegade" relegated him to the "gutter of history," denounced him as a lackey of Big Business. Cried the pamphlet: "Browder fostered . . . the fiction that there exists somewhere, some international Communist tribunal that determines policy for our Party, that our Party is not a fully independent Party of the American working class." In his weekly typewritten "Distributors Guide-A Service for Policy...
...Browderless weekend wore on; speculation raged. Might Browder win reinstatement from Moscow? Stranger shifts had marked the party's history. Or, perhaps, he had met with an accident...
...time pastry cook, is Secretary General of the French Communists; he is also a sort of unofficial foster parent for national Communist parties outside of Russia. Last year, in the French Communist organ Les Cahiers du Communisme, he administered a polemical spanking that unseated U.S. Communist Boss Earl Browder. Last week he turned his admonitory attention to Italian Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti...
Togliatti did not take it lying down, any more than Browder did (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The Italian Communist executive committee issued a statement that more than ever emphasized the unhappy dilemma of stooges of one country who operate as politicians in another country: "Italian Communists are unanimous in fighting with energy any rebirth of Italian nationalism. But they are also unanimous in hoping that a solution of the Trieste question will be found which will be different from that indicated by the French Communists...