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...loudest and most pained echo of Stalin's anti-Semitism was heard in New York. The Communist Daily Worker, which time and again had denied, denounced and ridiculed reports that Jews were being persecuted in Russia and the satellites, ate humble crow. Editorialized the Daily Worker: "We feel a deep sense of indignation, anger and grief over the latest disclosures [in Soviet Poland] that a large number of Jewish writers and other Jewish leaders were framed up and executed." Asking "what false theories . . . played a part in the violations," the Worker provided its own answer (like Communists all over...
...defection in 1948. A big wheel in the vast Cominform propaganda machine, Zachariades spewed abuse on Tito, accused him of bringing about the defeat of the Greek partisans. Gimlet-eyed Tito (also a Moscow alumnus) did not forget. Last year, when Khrushchev and Bulganin came to eat crow at Tito's table, one of the first remarks made by Tito was: "Zachariades has got to go." Said Bulganin: "Don't worry. Time will take care of things." Last week time caught up with 53-year-old Zachariades. The Cominform announced that he had been found "guilty of serious...
...Pastor King as president, was organized last Dec. 5, the day the bus boycott began, for the specific purpose of supporting the boycott and forcing Negro demands on the bus company. The defense aim was to prove, within the meaning of the statute, that the Negro protest against Jim Crow practices on the buses was just...
Last month the city council got a sharp letter from the government listing "complaints" allegedly made by visitors shocked by the lack of segregated facilities in Cape Town and insisting on apartheid. Grudgingly, the city ran a few trial Jim Crow buses and set up a Jim Crow public toilet on a main street. Protested a nonwhite city councilman: "Why do we do these terrible things at the mere hint of pressure from the Nationalists?" Last week the pressure became more than a hint. In the face of new threats from the provincial governor to act if the city...
Astringent and idiosyncratic, The Green Crow brings out the crackerbarrel philosopher strain in O'Casey. But the flashes of lyric power are there still, since fortunately, like the leopard, the proud "paycock" cannot change its spots...