Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disclosed the solicitors wore onetime Chicago Tribune Correspondent Jay Allen and two young women Friends of Spanish Democracy. Gasped confused Signer Tom Connally of Texas: "Merely as an act of greeting. ... I am opposed to Fascism because of its iron intolerance. ... I am also, of course, bitterly opposed to Communism." Neatest explanation was that of West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt: "I would congratulate any government capable of holding parliament in time of warfare...
Stalin's Generals. Not so confusing as it at first appears is the fact that Spanish Communists and the Soviet officials assisting them are doing everything in their power to prevent Leftist Spain from going too Red. Communism, by Steel Man Stalin's present definition, is primarily for Russian consumption. A Fascist Spain would be a tragedy for Moscow, but alienating France and Britain would be a tragedy too. To suit Stalin, the social revolution in Spain must wait or move slowly until threats of war to the Soviet Union from Germany and Japan are ended. Among...
...working for a goal and is wrapped up in an ideology that make him renounce friendship, patriotism, love, and self-interest. But the fallacy is that he is not only impersonal, but also inhuman; he is not even concerned, to all appearances with humanity. The familiar analogy between communism and religion is introduced, but a contradiction in the stand of the extreme radical is posited; he seeks something beyond material things while denying the existence of any such realm of being...
...opium of the people." Every enrolled member of the Communist Party is a professing atheist. The Soviet League of Militant Godless has kept clawing away at the Russian Church for twelve long years. Hence outside the Soviet Union, and even inside, there has been a tendency to forget that Communism has not wiped out the Church, that many of its priests have adapted themselves to Soviet conditions with such dexterity that they now preach Christ was the first...
...contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe and the eventual reconciliation of his family as a result, most of The Prodigal Parents is given over to scenes in which Howard or Sara bait Cornplow, Cornplow gets mad, the children make wild speeches about youth and Communism and Cornplow answers with speeches defending businessmen. When Cornplow refuses to give $500 to the Spanish government, Sara snarls at him, "Heaven knows I can't give anything with my wretched income," and Cornplow snarls right back, "I know I'm just a millionaire capitalist . . . only...