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Many men with natural distinction of mind-Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, Whittaker Chambers and Gustav Regler -have tried to read the Marxist riddle. By what stages does the self-sacrificing zeal of the idealist recruit to Communism become converted into the coldly inhuman amorality of the full-fledged apparatus man in the party's higher echelons? What turns the Utopian dream of universal brotherhood into the nightmare reality of the police state...
Four weeks ago, Nkrumah, under pressure from scandalized Marxist trade unionists around him, took to the radio at dawn one morning (the customary hour for Ghana's elders to give advice) to announce a new decree to his people: deputies in the legislature who engaged in outside businesses were violating the aims of socialism, and would be forced to give up their seats. "Some party members in Parliament," warned Nkrumah, "are tending to become a separate social group ... of self-seekers and careerists...
...Israeli army in 1950 by Chief of Staff Yigael Yadin, who recalls today that Beer "could do a brilliant job of military planning, but you always had to suspect his motives." Despite a sneering, officious manner, Beer rose swiftly in government circles. In 1954, he dropped out of the Marxist Mapam Party and joined Premier David Ben-Gurion's ruling Mapai Party. Soon he was back in the Defense Ministry to write a history...
...Pathet Lao, showing an un-Marxist feeling for tradition, have already been angling for an invitation. The occasion is doubly auspicious, since it will be the beginning of the Laotian New Year. And the seven days of feasting and drinking, thinks the King, should put anybody in a friendlier mood...
Bing & Crowbar. Both outfits are under the influence of the growing group of extreme leftists who now surround Nkrumah, pressuring the President toward accepting closer relations with Russia and imposing a Marxist stamp on Ghana's entire economy. "Long live the workers' solidarity. Down with imperialism, colonialism, capitalism and exploitation of labor," cried an article in a recent issue of B.A.A.'s widely distributed Voice of Africa. Its author was John Tettegah, Redlining boss of Ghana's Trades Union Congress, who has sold Nkrumah on the idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle...