Word: noncommunists
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...this Russian diplomatic action on Indo-China; more would be shocked when the French Communists showed their hand in sabotage of the military aid program. French Communist leaders understood this and moved with misgiving to carry out Moscow's orders. Last month Communist Jacques Duclos said to a nonCommunist: "If we concentrate all our efforts on the problem of low wages and high living costs, in nine months we shall have on our side the whole working class and a good slice of the petite bourgeoisie...
...candidate for the post formerly held in this country, when occupied by a foreign army, by a certain Pierre Laval." The Assembly, of which Thorez is a member, summoned him to explain himself. He repeated almost word for word the statement he had made to the Central Committee. Another nonCommunist, referring to Thorez' notorious army desertion in 1939 and subsequent run-out to Moscow, interrupted him when he reached the phrase, "If later our country should be dragged . . . into a war," and finished the sentence for him: "Je ficherais le camp [I would beat it]." Thorez flushed...
...Mapai's important rival, Mapam (United Workers Party), which claims to be nonCommunist, although its platform sounds like Radio Moscow: "We are against bases and concessions to imperialism; we are for an alliance of the progressive forces headed by Russia...
There will be little objection to the continuation of the financial reporting requirements of the Taft-Hartley act. The nonCommunist affidavit will not be asy to eliminate politically in view of the current international situation. Labor leaders will insist generally that the affidavit be made applicable to employers as well as union leaders. There will be little objection to the employers free speech and jurisdictional disputes provisions although significant changes in language are required...
...Pravda editorial denounced the official Academy of Architecture for "slavishly toadying to the rotten bourgeois ideology." It appeared that architects had made the mistake of designing buildings that looked nonCommunist. Pravda struck equally hard at the architects who went in for many-columned neo-classical facades (like those in Washington, D.C.), and the functionalists whose housing projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead...