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...press, speech and assembly as a denial of political freedom. . . .[It] recently appears as if [it] were less sympathetic to the Kuomintang than to the Chinese Communists, who are in opposition to the Kuomintang. . . . The New York Times, London Times, LIFE, TIME and FORTUNE are all papers that represent capitalist groups. They all sympathize with the Chinese Communists.* Their charge is that the Kuomintang cannot carry out democracy and that it rejects the existence of other parties when it is in power...
Like most Russian composers-and unlike his fellows in capitalist countries-Dmitri Shostakovich works for a corporation. Its headquarters are a modern redbrick combination office and apartment house just off Gorki Street in the center of Moscow. It is known as the Union of Soviet Composers, abbreviated to Musfund. Its board of directors are Russia's biggest musical bigwigs, some of them composers of distinction. When Musfund wants a symphony written, it gets a composer, sets a deadline (usually about a year away), gives an advance. A good job earns fat sums. The corporation also lends the composer...
...enthusiastic about the Provisional Government that succeeded the Czar, but when the Bolsheviks took Russia out of World War I the U.S. sent "protective" U.S. forces to Archangel and Vladivostok. The Bolsheviks considered this part of a general capitalist plot against the "Workers' Fatherland," though the presence of U.S. troops kept Japan from biting off eastern Siberia...
...this happened in Italy, which was a nation well within the stream of Graeco-Roman culture. It happened also in Germany. Mr. Flynn's plain point is that fascism can come to any Western capitalist nation, and he thinks that it is coming to the U.S. if someone doesn't figure out a way to lick old devil budget...
...balance. A succession of prime ministers, all of whom had begun political life as liberals, catered more & more to the pressure of important minorities. And along with this drift toward the politics of making the State a grab bag, there grew up in Italy a feeling that the capitalist system needed some kind of overall regulation. Both Right and Left wanted to be left alone to do their own "planning." And when various plans are offered, a coordinator is needed. Who could do the coordinating if not the Government...