Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report of the picket lines outside the Manhattan federal courthouse, and the cascade of telegrams and letters poured in on Judge Medina by Communist sympathizers [TIME, Sept. 5] might well make thoughtful Americans wonder if it is later than they think...
...counteract all this Communist-inspired abuse, all loyal Americans should pause for a few moments during the rush of their daily activities and send Judge Medina at least a postcard stating that they appreciate the difficulty and importance of his task...
...party splits in others. In several countries, e.g., Cuba, the party has deliberately cut its own membership rolls to be ready for underground activity. Moreover, the peace rally could boomerang on party members in some countries. Brazil's Deputy Pedro Pomar, who is a member of the outlawed Communist party but holds his seat because he was also elected on the Social Progressive ticket, was threatened with expulsion from Brazil's Congress after saying in Mexico that Brazil's armed forces were ruled by "Yankee generals...
...Harold R. Medina, wife of the federal judge at the Communist trial in Manhattan, explained in part her husband's impressive endurance record: since the trial began last January they have not gone to a single party, movie or play, and to church only once (on Easter Sunday...
...political maelstrom, personal lives veer crazily. In the underground days, for instance, Major Walker makes the Greek cause his own. At first, he disapproves of the stern British tactics against he Communist-liberal coalition, ELAS. He tries to argue with his superiors ("What are you after," a Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate...