Word: budenz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...marbled corridor off the pressroom one morning last week, newsmen surrounded blocky Frank Gordon, the assistant U.S. attorney. For 9½ days in Manhattan's federal court, Witness Louis Budenz, the backslid Red, had made out the case against eleven top U.S. Communists charged with conspiring to advocate forcible overthrow of the U.S. Government. Now, the reporters asked, who would the prosecution's next witness...
Word from Moscow. McGohey presented his first witness. He was ex-Communist Louis Budenz, a reformed Red. In most of his previous public appearances, Witness Budenz had destroyed much of his value as an expert on communism by going off half-cocked every time the word was mentioned. But this time Witness Budenz, directed by the prosecution, testified icily and directly...
...letter from a Daily Worker correspondent, said Budenz, he was told that "Manuilsky was indignant at the American party for not criticizing American officials more severely." The result was French Red Jacques Duclos' now famous Paris article castigating Earl Browder, then chief of the U.S. Communist party. Browder, who still stands ready to testify for the defense, was the fall guy of the Communist policy shift dictated by Moscow...
...Budenz obliged. In committing tailism, Browder was riding the ideological coattails of such "bourgeois" thinkers as Franklin Roosevelt. Opportunistic error, said Budenz, was failing to follow the Marxist-Leninist line. Revisionism was erroneously believing in peaceful progress towards socialism. And just plain Browder-ism: being guilty of all the other errors in one big lump...
...Louis Budenz, professional ex-Communist, advised Harry Bridges, Communist-line boss of West Coast longshoremen, to return to the faith of his Roman Catholic youth: "I know from personal experience how troubled must be the conscience of Harry Bridges, and that is why I am presenting this thought directly...