Word: browders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps you recall seeing this three-quarter-page advertisement by the Communists last summer in papers all over the country, in which Earl Browder says: "The time is more than ripe for the United States to insist that the Chungking Government shall put its house in order with a real, not a .formal, unification of all Chinese fighting forces...
...Communist parties outside of Russia were in a dither which dampened collaborationist hopes. Jacques Duclos, secretary of the French Communist party, belabored Earl Browder for plumping for collaboration with capitalist democracy. This week the U.S. Communists' National Board abjectly confessed its "opportunist errors," abandoned the "illusion" that wartime collaboration could be continued...
...Both scorn Earl Browder, but take a for giving attitude towards what the Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation...
...Earl Browder, acting for the self-proclaimed nonpolitical Communist Political Association, contributed a $5,000 check to the nonpolitical Freedom House campaign fund for the Wendell L. Willkie Memorial Building (TIME, Feb. 26), explained that it was "a public recognition of a debt" for Willkie's "defense ... of the right of American Communists to full citizenship. . . ." Freedom House's directors promptly returned the Browder check because of its "political implication," explained: "We advocate full collaboration with the Soviet Union ... in the prosecution of the war . . . [but] Wendell Willkie was outspoken in his criticism of American Communists...
...Connecticut became well-known all over the U.S. for the first time this autumn, as the whole New Deal poured money and speakers into Fairfield County to try to defeat her. Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Orson Welles, Clifton Fadiman and members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would be a very good thing...