Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Implicit in the entire book is the very Eton-Oxford communism held by Day Lewis and Auden and Spender, who have just discovered how the other half lives--that is, the people on the less fashionable side of the railroad tracks. The absence of personal apostrophes to "Wystan" and "Rex"--W. H. Auden and R. E. Warner--constitutes a gain in intelligibility, though even the shorter poems in the volume, such as "The Conflict" and "In me Two Worlds," which state the problems of the group almost as nicely as any prose manifesto, still want something in appeal...
...America who wield influence with the masses of the people, William Randolph Hearst is one of the most powerful. Because of this power, he must be judged in the light of his use of it. Mr. Donham is content that Hearst "is against communism, fascism, low tariffs, the League of Nations, the World Court, the NRA, and regimentation of economic life," and claims that in this respect his position is little different from that of papers such as the New York Herald-Tribune...
Which Capitalist European Power would be the first to swallow its hatred of Communism and make a military ally of Soviet Russia? The Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain...
...warmer sponsor than his friend Lord Rothermere. Five years ago the Rothermere Daily Mail hailed "the rebirth of Germany as a nation." Home from a visit to Munich, Rothermere exulted: "Under Herr Hitler's control the youth of Germany will be effectively organized against the corruption of Communism." More than a year ago he took up with Sir Oswald Mosley, vigorously pushed the Mosley "British Union of Fascists." Then came last June's Blood Purge in Germany, the instant revulsion of British sentiment against Naziism. Chuckleheaded Rothermere dropped Blackshirt Mosley like a hot potato, exclaiming: "The Blackshirts...
...even the staunchest opponent of communism would say that John Reed failed to fulfil these simple requirements. Like his classmate. Senator Cutting, whose career was out short a fortnight ago by an airplane accident, Reed died with the ardor of youth still burning in him. To many a contemporary, grown cautious and disillusioned, his memory will recall great days, rich in hope and expectancy. --Boston Herald. Wednesday...