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Commager is author of a number of books and a contributor to Atlantic, Harper's and the Nation...
Died. Agnes Smedley, 56, Missouri-born journalist, Daily Worker contributor, fervent propagandist for a Communist China (China Fights Back), free-lance foreign correspondent in Soviet-dominated lands; after long illness; in Oxford, England...
...militants" were going off in an anti-democratic direction. To the autoworkers, journalists, Government officials and professors who read the New Leader, it still seems to espouse theoretical socialism. But when it gets down to concrete recommendations, its line is often Fair Deal pragmatism. The carrot for big-name contributors is not money. The New Leader will sometimes pay as high as $10 a week to a contributor of a weekly column, but it pays nothing for articles. The lure to writers is complete freedom to have their say and veer as far right or left as they wish, provided...
...with Ambassador Steinhardt from the moment he arrived in October 1948. Until then, many Canadians had always thought of the U.S. embassy as a rest home for weary U.S. diplomats or a testing ground for fledglings. Steinhardt fitted neither pattern. He was a successful Wall Street lawyer, a heavy contributor to Democratic campaigns, whom Franklin Roosevelt first rewarded with the ministry to Sweden. No mere fat cat, hard-driving Laurence Steinhardt immersed himself in his job, soon became a virtual career ambassador in one hot spot after another...
Matyas Rakosi, nonalingual secretary general of the Hungarian Communist Party, a commissar in the bloody and shortlived Communist dictatorship of Bela Kun in 1919. He served as a wartime contributor to Pravda, often complains that he "spent the whole of [his] youth in prison," where, he says, he learned patience by reading the Saturday Evening Post...