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Andrei Gromyko explained the party line on Victor Kravchenko, the ex-Communist who wrote I Chose Freedom and has now chosen to testify on Russian espionage before a House committee (see PRESS). Said Gromyko: "When a dog has nothing to do, it licks its underbelly. Sometimes this attracts spectators...
Burnham, the ex-Communist, ex-Trotskyite professor who has recently been canonized by Time-Life, is a shrewder, slicker model of this type (top of his Princeton class, always a sharp dresser); his book is smart, superficially cogent, and therefore the more dangerous. His thesis is that the time is ripe for world empire by one power, and that the inescapable conflict is between Russia and the United States. Borrowing handfuls from historian Arnold Teynbee's arbitrary classification of civilizations (what are the criteria for a civilization?), Burnham sees America as the saviour of Western Civilization from the dynamic surge...
...Hartford, Conn., German-born Richard Julius ("Jan Valtin") Krebs, ex-Communist bravo whose bloody Out of the Night was a prewar bestseller, got his U.S. citizenship papers. In San Francisco, best-selling Philosopher Lin Yutang's 14-year-old daughter, Yu Hua, got into the U.S. on a visitor's permit-after a slight delay. The local immigration man claimed he had a "confidential" tip that she intended to stay for good, kept her aboard ship for two days & nights, finally took a chance...
When Pertini made his surprising report, the Socialist party executive committee voted unanimously for joint action with the Reds. Even Socialist leader Ignazio Silone, an ex-Communist whose novels (Fontamara, Bread and Wine) are magnificent tracts against both Communism and Fascism, went along with Pertini. Explained Silone: "The greatest danger to Italian democracy today is not Communism. It is neo-Fascism...
...that he picks the easy ones. In his powerful anti-Communist novels (Darkness at Noon, Arrival and Departure) and non-fiction (The Yogi and the Commissar) this tough-minded graduate of Europe's concentration camps sprang hip-deep into the great moral problems of our time. At 41, ex-Communist, now-Socialist Koestler is easily the top intellectual argufier writing today. Still picking the tough ones, he has now written a novel about Palestine and the Jews who claim it as their home. Thieves in the Night will not add a cubit to the stature of Koestler the novelist...