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Maurice Thorez had been the ideological father of Leon Blum's Popular Front. In the middle '30s Frenchmen called him "the French Stalin." During the period of the Russo-German pact, he had condemned France's "imperialist" war against Nazi Germany. When the Daladier Government outlawed the French Communist Party in September 1939, Thorez deserted from the Army, went underground...
...imperialist war," he now said: "The election of Thomas E. Dewey would be an American invitation to Europe to plunge immediately or soon into the most devastating civil war." Other consequences Comrade Browder foresaw, if Dewey were elected: the Soviet would be warned that the U.S. was determined to stop cooperating with it as soon as possible ; no postwar world security organization would be possible ; John L. Lewis would seize control of the U.S. labor movement; the G.O.P. would start a "witch-hunt" through the U.S. for hidden Communists; a series of strike waves would ensue; and finally, "all hope...
When Laurier sought re-election in 1911 on a platform of tariff reciprocity with the U.S., he found himself denounced by Bourassa's nationalists as an imperialist, by the Tories of English Canada for disloyalty to Britain. Defeated and embittered, Laurier retired to the Opposition, never regained office, died in 1919. Bourassa's nationalist faith deeply affected French Canadian thought. Although he finally quit politics in 1935, he emerged in World War II to fight conscription as bitterly as he had fought the sending of Canadians to South Africa...
...Harvard Liberal Union was founded late in 1940 as a protest against the isolationist attitude taken by the Harvard Student's Union, pursuant to the national attitude of the American Student's Union, which fell in with the Communist "Imperialist war' publicity...
...flown to test the political winds in Canada before the meeting of the Commonwealth's Prime Ministers in London scheduled soon, when Empire policies will finally be threshed out. The provocation for direct reply was great: some of the Prime Minister's supporters talked angrily of an "imperialist ramp" (i.e., "Swindle...