Word: communisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ewan becomes an intellectual radical, but he fights shy of Communism until the police run him in and give him a taste of the third degree. He comes out of jail battered but unbowed, and believing coldly that force must fight force. A cooked goose in Duncairn, he goes from job to job, quarrels with his sweetheart when he finds that her socialism will not stand up against economic pressure, leaves home to go to London and fight for the Cause. Chris goes off to a cottage in the country to think life over...
Another grievance is that "Zionists have been buying up the land without restriction." The complaint is rather a strange one: why should there be restrictions on voluntary land-transactions in a country which has not adopted communism? But Great Britain has given up its traditions of individual liberty in the sphere of property rights, and has placed many a restriction in the way of land purchase by Jews (See Reports of H. M.'s Government to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of Palestine, and Trans-Jordan...
...suspicion with which student organizations at Harvard have reacted to the invitation of the Continuations Committee of the Armistice Day Anti-War Conference requesting participation in a sane review of the peace problem. But the CRIMSON's success in creating the erroneous impression that Anti-War Strike, N.S.L. and Communism are synonymous terms has prevented wide and whole-hearted support of a move which it has itself editorially supported namely, the promotion of peace. Until last year's affair can be forgotten, or unless the CRIMSON takes steps to rectify its inadvertancy, only a modicum of serious thought...
...tries in vain to find a hitching post to which he can hook his personality beyond all danger of becoming loosened. The reader, reflecting on the author's self-contempt at being unable to espouse and realizes what Mr. Sheean could not that, as shown in "Personal History." Communism is in the last analysis but another extreme, another Utopia. One leaves Mr. Sheean convinced of the significance in the fact that so honest a man, striving as he did to achieve Boredin's "long view," turned away from Russia when forced to choose between it and the western civilization...
...SHEEAN has written one of the most important books in post-war journalism. Commencing with remarkably incisive comments on his career in Chicago University, and concluding with his flight from Russia and Communism, he holds his reader fascinated; treating him the while to a display of such intellectual honesty as does one's soul good in these jingoistic, nationalistic, patriotic days...