Word: leftishness
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...subtitle of Gandhi and Stalin is Two Signs at the World's Crossroads. Leftish Correspondent Louis Fischer has been at those crossroads once before. That time he took the road marked Stalin. He lived in Russia for 14 years, raised his children there, wrote pro-Stalin pieces for Manhattan's pink Nation that warmed the fellow travelers like letters from home. By 1938, Fischer could no longer stomach the excesses of the Communist dictatorship. When he left Russia, his wife and two sons stayed behind. They later got out with Mrs. Roosevelt's help...
...views of a socialist-baiting Tory. First as vicar of Portsea, then as bishop of South London's slum-ridden Southwark district, Dr. Garbett learned a great deal about what life is like among the poor; as an enthusiastic sponsor of his Church's famed, leftish Malvern program in wartime, he won the hearts of Anglican liberals...
Shocking Pink. The aging Welsh wonder-boy of British journalism was as giftedly gabby as ever but no longer so leftish. At 23, as political mascot to Old Liberal Lloyd George, Owen had been Parliament's youngest member. At 32, he had left the Express to become the Socialist editor of Imperialist Beaverbrook's Evening Standard (the Beaver did not forbid dissenting opinions, but only dull ones, from such bright-pink young men as Owen and his successor Michael Foot). On the Standard, Owen had tramped hard on Tory toes, squawked against Chamberlain's appeasers...
...ever since. Today, as Health Minister, he cannot exercise direct control, but remote control is good enough. Energetic Jennie Lee, his dark-haired wife, is a Tribune director, and many a friendly tea at their house could pass for an editorial conference. Other directors: bright, up-&-climbing Michael Foot, leftish M.P., and Patricia Strauss, wife of another founder who is now under secretary of transport...
...countercharges that have surrounded the election campaign, and present ... a clear picture of what's going on." The reporter who got the assignment had left the U.S. only the day before. The correspondent: PM's flim-flamboyant ex-editor Ralph Ingersoll, whose politics are left of leftish...