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...following in the steps of Louis Budenz, who had quit as managing editor of New York's Daily Worker (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945) to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church, Convert Hyde took along his two children. His wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek...
Catholic Hour (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Louis F. Budenz, re-Catholicized ex-Communist, speaks on Our Last Chance...
Americans have shown a willingness to take most of their information about communism and Russia from a curious and shameless lot of renegades. Krebs ("Valtin"), Kravehenko, and Budenz have followed each other, in renouncing the cause loudly in the tencent press. But it seems strange that a mere turnabout should qualify these men as respected experts; if, before, they were conspiratorial and totalitarian minded enemies of America and democracy, why are they now suddenly eligible for cocktail parties and the better publishing houses...
...inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge of communism, which he describes in a lurid Budenz-like chapter...
Gerhart Eisler had nothing to hide. Budenz, he said, as if the explanation were unnecessary to people of intelligence, was obviously mistaken. It was true that he had once been a Communist in Germany but that had been many years ago. He had come to the U.S. in 1941, a poor refugee, hounded by the Nazis. Did he look like a spy? All he wanted to do was go back to Germany, but the U.S. State Department would not allow...