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This unusual parting gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between...
...final words to these injured haughties, Biographer Ludwig asks them not to forget this: What they now call a seduction was, as they freely admitted in 1933, really a necessary operation performed to save their capitalist lives...
...inviting capitalist democracy's confidence and respect, U. S. Communists also invite the question: "What of the revolution?" Answer is that Communists have no more love than before for capitalist democracy. They have faced the facts that: 1) U. S. people do not now want a socialized order, 2) the Party needs democracy as an ally against fascism. As Comrade Browder put it in 1936: "A consistent struggle for democracy and progress leads inevitably, and in the not distant future to the socialist revolution...
Millions of Mexicans honestly believe their Government's expropriation of $400,000,000 worth of U. S. and British oil properties is approved in the White House as a justified crackdown upon Capitalist gringos. Britons do not take so easy a view of the matter, and suddenly last week the British Government sent a third note of stern protest. London papers called Mexican President General Lazaro Cardenas a "bandit." After hours of rapidly worsening relations, the envoy of Mexico in London and the envoy of Britain in Mexico City were withdrawn by their respective Governments, together with their whole...
Probably no group of writers or politicians has less respect for each other than the Katzenjammer Kids of the radical movement. Their polemical outbursts are juicy with accusations and counteraccusations. Almost invariably they get home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past master at this sort of street-fighting is New York's Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten...