Word: ex-communist
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...Deal, an assistant in the State Department, and, for a moment of front-page eminence, secretary general to the San Francisco founding convention of the United Nations. But he had never been so noteworthy in his public life as he had in his ultimate disgrace, when ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers exposed Hiss's treason...
...ex-Communist novelists can be believed, the only good Communists are dead Communists, and the man who destroyed them is Stalin. Most of them died because they failed to make the tricky turns on the tortuous slalom course of the party line. Some of them didn't even see the turns coming up. A few saw them but preferred destruction to further writhing and twisting...
...Daily Herald said Lowen had confused Mather with "a man named Mathews . . . an ex-Communist by confession," referred to in the Syracuse Daily Orange, February...
...biggest thing that ever happened to Novelist Arthur Koestler was becoming a Communist in 1931. The second biggest was his divorce from Communism in 1938. As with a lot of other ex-Communist writers, this cyclic experience is his whole stock in trade. From it came the one first-rate book of the dozen he has written, Darkness at Noon (TIME...
Under Two Dictators, by Margarete Buber. The impressive testament of an ex-Communist who survived the concentration camps of both NKVD and Gestapo (TIME...