Word: carlson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME did not say that distinguished Marine Carlson was a member of the Communist Party, did make the indisputable point that his political views often take him into Communist-front organizations, e.g., the National Committee to Win the Peace...
...EVANS F. CARLSON...
Everyone knew that retired Brigadier General Evans F. Carlson was a Marine, and a good one. In the early days of the Pacific War, his Gung Ho Raiders wrote heroic headlines at Makin and Guadalcanal. Not so many U.S. citizens knew that General Carlson had also long been an apostle of Communistic causes and Communist-fringe groups. In 1939, after traveling 2,000 miles as a military observer with China's Communist Eighth Route Army, he had resigned from the Marines to push his crusade. Last week Old China Hand Carlson made his ideology perfectly clear to everyone...
...press conference in Manhattan, General Carlson and Russophile Singer Paul Robeson, cochairmen of the National Committee to Win the Peace, announced a San Francisco conference for next month to urge withdrawal of U.S. troops from China, withdrawal of U.S. support from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government. Said Cochairman Carlson: "The only democratic force [in China] is that being fostered by the Communists. People in this country don't like that word Communist; but I've learned it's wise to go behind words and find out about actions...
Shadowboxing. Woodring's strafing of the dry law caught Kansas politicians off guard. So effective was his attack that the down-at-heels Democratic organization nominated him as the gubernatorial opponent of Republican Congressman Frank Carlson (TIME, Aug. 19). Then he wrote a wet plank (repeal, state-operated liquor stores, county option, no saloons) into the Democratic platform. By last week Harry Woodring had come up from nowhere to a 50-50 chance for election...