Word: ex-communist
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...congressional investigations of Communism went into their third week, one fact stood out in everyone's mind: someone was lying in his teeth. The someone was either handsome, 43-year-old Alger Hiss, until 1947 a top official in the State Department, or ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers, now a senior editor of TIME. By week's end, it was clear that on one vital point it was not Whittaker Chambers who was lying...
...congressional investigation of Communists turned last week from a story of espionage to a story of Communists in high places in Government. The course was changed by the testimony of a soft-voiced ex-Communist, who sat down before the House Un-American Activities Committee and calmly told a tale of high powered plotting in New Deal days...
There was a whole shelf of books on Russia and the Russian problem, ranging in viewpoint from Earl Browder's pro-Soviet War or Peace with Russia? to ex-Communist James Burnham's The Struggle for the World, which regards compromise with Russia as dangerous folly. Hal Lehrman went to the Balkans as a pro-Soviet correspondent, had his eyes opened by the totalitarian steamroller in action, described it convincingly in Russia's Europe...
Carey was not intimidated; he fought on, trying to soften some of the union's pronouncements on U.S. policies. In the middle of one skirmish, up jumped a Careyman who said he was an ex-Communist. He shouted that the union "is controlled lock, stock and barrel by the Communist Party. . . . The only decisions which will come out of this convention are those having the stamp of approval of the Party." Retorted "Fitzy" Fitzgerald: "Trash...
Catholic Hour (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Louis F. Budenz, re-Catholicized ex-Communist, speaks on Our Last Chance...