Word: ex-communist
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...Nickell was disturbed by a mimeographed letter from an organization called the Michigan Education Information Service. Though no Michigan official had ever heard of the service or could find any trace of its existence, Nickell decided to investigate the letter's charges that Henry had once appointed an ex-Communist to the Wayne faculty and that two other teachers were suspended last year for refusing to answer questions before a congressional committee. Nickell also wanted to know why in 1947 Henry had been so slow to ban the campus chapter of American Youth for Democracy. The fact that Henry...
...member of the Italian foreign service, Sogno became impressed by the posters and publications of Jean Paul David's anti-Communist Paix et Liberté movement (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). After the heavy blow to Italian democracy in the 1953 elections, Sogno returned to Rome and started an anti-Communist monthly called Pace e Libertà. For his editor Sogno chose a formidable man: square-jawed Luigi Cavallo, an ex-Communist and ex-editor of the Red daily L'Unità. To dish the dirt on the Reds, Cavallo drew on extensive files, a long memory and sources...
...Invisible Writing, by Arthur Koestler. A brilliant travelogue (the second volume of his autobiography) describing the famous ex-Communist's journey through and out of the Marxist hell (TIME...
...himself, Wilson may nevertheless be caught some day with his homilies down. If he is, there are a few other ways he can solve the nation's ills and still retain the dog-cared image. You can't teach an old dog new tricks might apply to any ex-communist, while the country's enemies, from Hiss to Ho Chi Minh, could be lumped under the heading of dogs in the manager. Although the Administration's critics usually bay at the moon, for those recurring embarrassments, like Senator McCarthy, there's the old wheeze about letting sleeping dogs...
...Ex-Communist Koestler writes of his seven lean years in the party with a kind of choked-up reluctance; in a sense, he has already made bigger and better confessions in his fiction. The Invisible Writing is nevertheless a fascinating document in which Koestler reaffirms membership in the company of those who, like Silone. Malraux, Chambers and others, have "seen the future" and are very much afraid that it may work. Koestler confesses to a recurring dream in which he shouts warning of terrible danger to a crowd, but no one will listen. With his faculty for making his nightmares...