Word: leftishness
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Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
This spring the Venezuelan government closed down leftish El National, the country's biggest newspaper, after a linotyper by purposeful accident described the ruling junta as "the three little pigs." But when even pro-junta El Universal (in its social notes) printed a blast at "tyrants," the junta allowed El National to resume publication. Circulation jumped 3,000 copies...
...Left-wing Laborites like ardent, outspoken Aneurin Bevan (see above) complained that Labor would have done better if it had fought a more militant, more frankly leftish campaign. There is no objective reason to believe this. Both major parties drove for the middle, squeezing the Liberals between them. In the doubting mood of the British electorate, these cautious tactics were probably sound for both sides...
...outside the publishing business are aware of the connection, the Straight family,*which publishes the politically conscious New Republic (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948), also publishes the politically unconscious Antiques. An illustrated monthly,. Antiques is the biggest and most successful magazine in its field. In the depression years, when the leftish New-Republic prospered, the newly purchased Antiques lost money. Now Antiques makes money and the New Republic loses it. From a circulation high point of 96,441 in 1948 under Editor Henry Wallace, the N.R. has slumped to 37,000; the current issue carries only three ads and a column...
...concentration was interrupted when his wife left him, divorced him and married his old crony from Harvard days, Joseph Barnes, who later became Moscow correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, then editor of the leftish, ill-starred New York Star. But the interruption was only momentary. Field poured money into Red activities, put on $100-a-plate dinners for C.P. causes, slavishly followed the party line-and married wealthy Edith Chamberlain Hunter of California, who was once a diligent worker in Red vineyards, but who describes herself vigorously as not a Communist...