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Whether U.S. citizens liked the new British Government or thought it a political menace, they had to face the fact of its existence. For the time being at least, the U.S. would be the only capitalist country among the great powers. Americans could now watch socialism in one of its mildest forms in action in a country which was most nearly like their own, under the direction of responsible men. Whether this would cause a revision in the U.S. way of doing things was a question for the future...
...middle age (he is 44) had mellowed Harry. Grinning, he said: "The capitalist system is going to be around for a long time, and we have to shape a labor program to fit the system." Last week, after 25 years, he applied for his final U.S. citizenship papers. But his troubles were not over. And again they lay in the courts. Seeking a divorce, his wife charged that he is the father of a New York dancer's illegitimate child. Harry denied...
...What did we lose, comrades? Is it necessary to remind me of the gulf between us and the capitalist world? On the other hand, there was Lend-Lease and there was a second front. It is not certain that we would have survived otherwise...
...world. . . . The leaders of capitalism . . . betray the masses of their people by asserting that the aim of the war is the protection of democracy." Now he preached collaboration. The Ukrainian chairman in San Francisco, Dmitry Z. Manuilsky, had said in 1939: "Not a stone will remain of the cursed capitalist structure." Now he echoed Joseph Grew's statement that there were no basic conflicts between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R...
...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...