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Americans could applaud Lilienthal's statement. It had the ring of truth. But the problem was not simple. There is at work in the U.S. an active, aggressive, malignant thing-conspiratorial Communism-which must be rooted out. It is fairly easy to recognize it in men like Gerhart Eisler...
...beyond Eisler there are a host of other men-fellow travelers, confused liberals, "totalitarian liberals" (see INTERNATIONAL), left-wing New Dealers-who owe muddled allegiance to the idea that government should be omnipotently responsible for the lives of its citizens even to the point of benevolent despotism. They fail to understand that despotism, which has a way of beginning with benevolence, usually ends by being merely despotic. Few of them even understood the incompatibility of their views with democracy, or that it is just such views which makes them so sympathetic to Soviet Russia. But the mass of Americans...
...plump, balding, kindly looking little man. He seemed dumfounded one day last October to find reporters outside his $35-a-month apartment in Queens. Was he Gerhart Eisler? Yes, yes, he was. Well-he had just been accused of being the No. I U.S. Communist, the Brain, the big tap on the wire to Moscow. How about...
...Eisler acted as though he did not understand. Who had said this? A man who knew him-Louis Francis Budenz, ex-managing editor of Manhattan's Daily Worker. Eisler peered through his hornrimmed spectacles with a gentle smile and asked the gentlemen...
...Gerhart Eisler had nothing to hide. Budenz, he said, as if the explanation were unnecessary to people of intelligence, was obviously mistaken. It was true that he had once been a Communist in Germany but that had been many years ago. He had come to the U.S. in 1941, a poor refugee, hounded by the Nazis. Did he look like a spy? All he wanted to do was go back to Germany, but the U.S. State Department would not allow...