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...Communism is 20th century Americanism," and half the leading U.S. writers believed him. The aging Lincoln Steffens could return from Russia declaring "I have seen the future, and it works." It was the time of the fellow traveler, and among the famous fellows who traveled were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Theodore Dreiser...
...traveled no farther than Spain. No ideologue, he never accepted the Marxist doublethink that enabled so many others to blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party, but was soon disillusioned and paid for it by being denounced as the possessor of a "poisoned ideology and sick soul." Dreiser became a steadier, more devout believer and platform Marxist, died in the party...
...troubled literary landscape of the time; it is a largely sympathetic study of a few whose temporary literary power exceeded their permanent influence: Malcolm Cowley, editor of the New Republic, Granville Hicks, editor of the New Masses, Mike Gold and Lincoln Steffens at the hard core, Edmund Wilson and Dos Passos hovering on the periphery. They formed what Gold envisioned in the late '20s as "Communism's literary shock troops," and their motives, Aaron observes, were "by no means reprehensible.'' But within these limitations, he has sketched the choreography of a great troupe of American writers...
...winners this year include Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.), novelist John Dos Passos, Herbert Hoover, Gen. Edwin Walker, Prof. Richard M. Weaver, John Wayne, columnist David Lawrence, and editor M. Stanton Evans...
...fight to continue the moratorium on debating the subject. But most State Department experts think that the moratorium, as a gag on free discussion, has lost too much favor with a General Assembly now swollen to 99 members, with most of the new nations opposed to the idea. The DOS planners would prefer to conduct open arguments on the merit of Red China's admission-and seek to have the question classified as an "important" matter, requiring a two-thirds majority vote...