Word: leftist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some U.S. left-wingers who had eagerly grabbed up Russia's cause at war's end were beginning to suspect they had caught a bear by the tail. In Manhattan's fiercely leftist PM last week, Author-Editorialist Saul K. Padover, a militant member of the intellectual Left, tried to let go. Wrote...
...second said: "EAM" (National Liberation Front, the leftist anti-Hitler organization which became an instrument of Communist terror...
...Panayotis, a Spartan lawyer, told how a band of extreme right-wing X-ites* broke into his house last May. "We were dining at about 11 at night, when five or six men came into the house. They killed my brother, who was a royalist though I am a leftist, broke my sister's arm, my mother's arm, wounded me in the leg, wounded another sister in the cheek. Now we live with relatives, six in one room...
...Last week the press was howling mad. In Washington a committee of correspondents spent three days trying to whittle down the press party, finally sent a priority list of 52 to State Secretary George Marshall with a strong protest against the "shockingly inadequate" quota. The New York Times and leftist PM, on the same side of the fence for once, suggested that the Russians either fix up some Quonset huts, or let the meeting be moved elsewhere. Even if Moscow gave in to Marshall's renewed protests, there were headaches ahead. For correspondents, Moscow was short on wire facilities...
...Mexico's top Art Critic Antonio Castro Leal seemed to corroborate the angry priest when he told Orozco: "Your art is not easy, soothing, or conservative, but deep and violent." From the first, Orozco had dipped his brushes in violence and brutality. His paintings. like those of his leftist colleagues Rivera and Siqueiros, became the flags of Mexico's political revolutionaries. But there was nothing impersonal or party-line about Orozco's bitterness...