Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roundly cheered by a mob of Communists and fellow travelers in London, Gerhart Eisler said he would proceed to the Russian zone of Germany and take a teaching post at Leipzig. Although jubilant, the little man seemed somewhat puzzled by his release. In his Red dream world, the British court which ruled on his case should have functioned as a docile tool of U.S. imperialist terror. Said Eisler, whimsically: "I ain't no mastermind, but I'm an average good Communist. I try to be a better Communist every...
...usual, not all the reviews were favorable. "The civil union of an Indian prince and his girl friend by a Communist functionary," sneered Los Angeles' Father Thomas J. McCarthy in his tabloid Tidings. Moaned A.P.'s Hal Boyle: "A strictly grade B script . . . how bad can times get?" The script was no worse than Rita's touted The Lady from Shanghai; like the film, it was expensive, pointless, and covered a lot of geography...
Armored cars paraded through flag-draped Prague last week. Outside the huge Industrial Palace stood a cordon of Czech security police carrying Tommy guns. Inside, 1,000 delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Czech Communist Party met. Joseph Stalin was named "honorary chairman" of the meeting; his representative, Cominform Boss Georgy Malenkov, attended in his stead. The congress sent a telegram to "Dear Comrade Stalin": "We shall always stand faithfully by the side of the U.S.S.R...
What Day Is It? At midnight, Communist infantrymen commanded by General Chen Yi began filtering into Shanghai through the French concession in the southwest. The Reds moved as quietly as they could. In small groups they advanced slowly down the sidewalks of Avenue Joffre and Great Western Road, sidling close to buildings for protection against occasional fire from isolated Nationalist snipers. By 9 a.m. they had reached the city's skyscraper-lined Bund...
...Kissing Her Now? Gradually, Shanghai's shopkeepers began to open their stores. The Communists, eager to get business started again, asked the American-owned Shanghai Power Co. to keep the doors of its collection office open even though one corner of the building was still in the line of fire of a few Nationalist snipers still fighting from the buildings along the Bund and Soochow Creek. On the third day of Communist rule, 300 truckloads of political workers and takeover officials chugged into Shanghai. One group, responsible for industry, trade, finance, postal services and telecommunications, set up offices...