Word: communistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House rafters rang indeed with opposition. Republican John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, member of the Dies Un-American Activities Committee, leaped up to flay Poet MacLeish as a "fellow traveler" of the Communist Party, a cofounder of the League of American Writers ("of the 23, twelve were well-known Communists"), an active sympathizer with Loyalist Spain...
...absolutely sympathetic with the Communist cause, but for various reasons does not care to be a party member," replied New Jersey's Thomas. "The Administration is now, and has been for some time, placing people in key positions who are either members of the Communist Party or fellow travelers...
...Kladno, 18 miles northwest of Prague, live Czech coal miners and steel workers.* The town was known in free Czecho-Slovakia as a Communist stronghold and since the German occupation has been the centre of a quiet but effective sabotage campaign against German rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers...
Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...
...Strecker decision, declaring onetime membership in the Communist party insufficient cause for deporting an alien, was another major bit of New Dealing...