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...Maugham's professional slickness, Christmas Holiday describes the shattering Paris holiday of a safe-&-sane young Englishman. Shatterers are a strip-tease pick up, who tells him about her marriage to a man who murdered for sport; a boyhood friend who is grooming himself to head the OGPU of a future Communist England...
Comrade Malkin named nine OGPU agents-including Julia Stewart Poyntz, who left the Party in 1936, mysteriously disappeared after threatening to write a book exposing it; named 24 labor unions, including the Newspaper Guild, as led or dominated by Communists...
WASHINGTON--Fred Beal, former Communist party organizer now serving a North Carolina state prison term, today urged the House committee on un-American activities to guard its witnesses against reprisals by party members and the dread. OGPU, Soviet Russian Secret police agency...
...Public Health Service disliked being lumped into Security, but its protest got nowhere. A plan to consolidate the police units of the Treasury (Secret Service, Revenue, Narcotics, Customs, Alcohol) was vetoed by the President and Secretary Morgenthau as looking too much like the start of an Ogpu or Gestapo...
Nachman is sacrificed to the OGPU, Author Singer has long ago sacrificed him as a plausible character. As the last third of the story turns into out & out melodrama, even anti-Communist readers are likely to feel that literature as well as Nachman has been the victim of a frame...