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...City schools (TIME, March 31), last week resumed hearings. A teacher in P.S. 61, The Bronx, one Alfred J. Brooks, was revealed to have divided his time between The Bronx and Moscow. He had had seven leaves of absence from school since he became a teacher in 1922. Benjamin Gitlow and Joseph Zack, ex-Communist functionaries, said they had seen him in Moscow in 1927-28, working for the Communist International. His alleged party name: Bosse...
...Department of Justice investigators believe that Earl Browder is a mere frontman, are not sure whom to call Joseph Stalin's chief deputy in the U. S. Nominated for this honor last week (by ex-Communist Benjamin Gitlow, in a book called I Confess) was comrade Jack Stachel, who recently skedaddled from Manhattan to parts unknown...
...recall the background of that historic tangle with Stalin, Ben Gitlow, highest placed and most articulate U. S. Communist yet to spill the beans, last week published a 611-page confession of his Party life. It is a lively and extraordinary history. Unlike most ex-Communists, Author Gitlow does not try to prove that his brand of Communism was right, that of the Stalinites wrong. Given Marx and Lenin, concludes Author Gitlow, Stalinism is inevitable; Fascism also. As for his own role in the Party, Author Gitlow confesses he was no better than the next one -though naturally he credits...
...Communists of Gitlow's memoirs are in dead earnest about the "proletarian revolution"; their activities frequently have serious consequences for their followers and U. S. labor. But they figure nevertheless in scene after scene of political opera bouffe which even the most gifted satirist would be proud to have invented. Typical scenes...
...underground" Communist convention of 1922 (Gitlow, chairman), convened in deep woods near the village of Bridgman, Mich., with night sessions by torchlight to ape Old Bolsheviks under the Tsar. Between sessions the comrades played poker, told dirty stories, went swimming, romanced with female delegates, played practical jokes on the three Russian observers from Moscow (Comintern "Reps"), threw a shoe at one who kept them awake while he wooed Comrade Rose Pastor Stokes. Every bush concealed a caucus...