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...twelve years had been strenuous ones. In 1939 he had given up a top-drawer practice in corporation law for politics. He was tired of law suits, said Cripps, "of taking money from one capitalist to give to another capitalist." As a Socialist he sought a different distribution of wealth. When he gave up his law practice, there were 6,560 Britons (including Cripps) with after-tax incomes above ?6,000 a year. Last week when he returned to private life there were only...
Nobody is quicker to recognize a useful piece of Communist propaganda in the capitalist press than the sharp-eyed editors of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker. Last week they found an unexpected windfall in the good grey New York Times. They clipped out a series of dispatches on life in Russia by Times Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury and reproduced parts of them. Crowed the Worker: "The articles [were] a refreshing, vivid contrast to the daily diet of highly imaginative bunk which the Times and its journalistic cohorts generally feed their readers" and "completely undermined" the "official line...
Managers of state-owned clothing shops displayed mannikins dressed in the jampec style, along with the warning that "everybody who imitates this American fashion madness belongs to the capitalist U.S. in spirit." One shop window (see cut) showed a gorilla next to a jampec and a telegram from the Budapest zoo's monkey house protesting against the insult of comparing a jampec to one of their kind...
...question of propaganda in Asia, so long as central governments control all means of communication (as they do in China and Russia) any of our actions will be turned against us in the official pronouncements. But as long as the United States keeps its hands free from "capitalist-imperialist" intentions, it need not be ashamed of its policy in the eyes of the free world, and it need not fear the vetoes, filibusters, and propaganda of the unfree...
Stalin . . . and all his international henchmen fanatically believe that "the capitalist system as a whole is already ripe for revolution." They fanatically believe, as Lenin proved, that "the importance of war as a midwife of Revolution can scarcely be exaggerated...