Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sounding the Pitch. The Communist keynote - Down with Yankee Imperialism - had been anticipated long before Poet-Chairman Enrique González Martínez uttered the first word. It was sounded again & again as each delegation chairman got off a short, sharp speech...
...must lean to one side," Mao Tse-tung proclaimed last July. The Sino-Soviet Friendship Association was the apparatus the Communists set up to get Chinese to lean-toward the U.S.S.R., of course. Association branches have mushroomed in every sizable Communist-held city. Shanghai's got under way last week. On a public platform adorned with huge posters of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh, Shanghai's Communist leaders echoed the word: "We want to lean to one side...
Denied other halls by the government and by leary landlords, the Communist-run Western Hemisphere Peace Congress met last week in an old Mexico City sports arena, still redolent of sweat and arnica. A swatch of peace posters blotted out a big notice reading: "Please check your guns and knives." Overhead a flock of 40 red-eyed, papier mâché doves of peace hovered between a battered Scoreboard and "No Betting" signs...
...sparkplug of the congress was suave, greying Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican boss of the leftist Latin American Confederation of Workers. An old hand at organizing pro-Communist meetings, he had the shabby hall packed on opening night with 5,000 people, including 800 delegates from the U.S., Canada and Latin America. During a two-hour delay before the rally got under way, they whooped it up with cheers for "Peace, Peace, Peace...
Said Chilean Communist Cesar Godoy, an ex-Senator: "Chile is a typical example of how imperialist warmakers served by repulsive native agents seek to destroy what is best in the country." Mrs. Paul Robeson explained that her husband had stayed in the U.S. "to finish the battle of Peekskill" (TIME, Sept. 5). Only the U.S.'s O. John Rogge, after unsuccessful efforts had been made to censor him, struck a discordant note, and his was one of the last speeches. Before he finished saying that "the excesses of capitalism are balanced by the excesses of Communism," most...