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...Leon Sullivan, a Black civil rights activist and leader of one of Philadelphia's large Black churches, was appointed to the General Motors board of directors in 1971. Initially, Sullivan used his position to press for the withdrawal of G.M. and other U.S. companies from South Africa. By 1975 Sullivan had failed to persuade a single company to withdraw so he decided to change tactics and encourage companies to commit themselves to the abolishment of apartheid. In March 1977, Sullivan released a "Statement of Principles" for companies operating in South Africa, Originally endorsed by 12 farms, the Principles now have...
First he calls the Spartacist League "Stalinist," although he knows full well that they are Trotskyists, and that they call for a political revolution in the USSR to replace the bureaucracy them. Leon Trotsky, he will remember, died in 1940 from a blow to the skull with an ice-pick, delivered by an agent of the GPU. Do Trotskyist organizations like the Spartacist League receive support from Moscow, from...
...Sports don't even act like real communists...the Spartacists are not real leftists; their organization has got to be come kind of right-wing front to discredit the left." He repeatedly assures me personally that the Spartacist League is a "cop front." Likewise, many would have as believe, Leon Trotsky was an agent of the Germani Emperor, of the Mikado, of Hitler...
...With only 1% of Trans World's stock, they nonetheless persuaded shareholders who control perhaps a fourth of the company to vote their way. That fell short of the required 51% majority, but Trans World Chairman L. Edwin Smart must remain worried about another challenge. Said a pleased Leon Levy, leader of Odyssey: "The same forces are still at play. Our recommendation still stands...
...FORTIES by Edmund Wilson, edited by Leon Edel Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 369 pages...