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Died. Eugene Varga, 84, Soviet economist, who in 1946 stunned the Communist world-and discredited himself-by writing that 1) the U.S. would not suffer a severe postwar depression, 2) capitalist nations would not necessarily undergo revolution, and 3) Communism and capitalism could coexist, views that eventually returned Varga to grace after Stalin's death, when the Kremlin revamped its party line; in Moscow...
German history funnels through a succession of rooms, depicting capitalist exploitation, proletarian sufferings and unrest, and the active work of various revolutionary groups, to the Marxzimmer where der grosste Sohndes Deutsches Volkes ("the greatest child of the German people"), sculpted in bronze, faces a first edition of the Communist Manifesto on red velvet at the other end of the room...
Here he extolled the roll of the capitalist, the manager, the worker, and the federal government in the "prudence and progress" of our free enterprise system. He was speaking to the businessmen, he said, in order to "ask advice, thank you for your help, and show you I'm not scared...
Smoothing Them Over. Johnson's constant themes are prosperity, peace -and unity. "Let us bring the capitalist and the manager and the worker and the Government to one table to share in the fruits of all our dreams and all of our work," he says. He seeks not to create issues, but to smooth them over. He hopes, for example, to blunt the G.O.P.'s "law-and-order" issue by having the FBI investigate the possibility that "outside agitators" moved in to provoke the riots in the North's Negro ghettos. And he is trying to soften...
...workers of Italy, said Togliatti, a new approach must be devised. "For this purpose," said Togliatti with heretical frankness, "the old atheist propaganda is of no use." Another fat target for Communist penetration is the realm of literature, art and science, where "the doors are wide open. In the capitalist world, in fact, such conditions are being created as to destroy the liberty of intellectual life. We must become the champions of intellectual liberty, of free artistic creation and of scientific progress...