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...pinko New Republic has been found by the New Leader to show symptoms of "totalitarian liberalism" and also to be "a journal of subsidized opinion." (The New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen, was co-founder of the New Republic with her late husband, Willard Straight...
Bullfighting and Protestantism. Manhattan's pinko New Republic published Gide's most recent opinions on U.S. writing. "No other contemporary literature," said Gide, "arouses my curiosity more. . . ." Gide listed among his favorite U.S. authors: 1) Novelist Ernest Hemingway -"I have none of his love for bullfighting, and yet there is no American author I would rather meet." 2) Novelist John Steinbeck-"some of the stories in ... The Long Valley . . . equal or surpass the best tales of Chekhov." 3) Crimester Dashiell Hammett-"I regard his Red Harvest as a remarkable achievement, the last word in atrocity, cynicism and horror...
Some old Shuster friends were unhappy about his letter. They felt as if he were threatening just about everybody in sight. The pinko-red tabloid PM first saluted Shuster as "realistic, contemporary and liberal," but two days later attacked him for "applying the method of command and authoritarianism...
...reasons for speaking up. Unlike Americans, who get their radio programs free, over nine million British radio owners pay ten shillings apiece yearly for the privilege of listening to their only broadcasting system. For their money they get the product of a semi-government monopoly which England's pinko New Statesman & Nation terms "the usual British compromise between incompatibles." Constitutionally attached to the office of the Minister of Information-by a clause so elastic that the Minister can always disclaim control of BBC-BBC is theoretically not controlled by the Government. It is theoretically not a private monopoly, either...
...with the rejection of the League and the rise of the "red menace" the New Republic lost 40% of its circulation. Branded as Socialistic, Communistic and pinko, the New Republic has not enjoyed an easy acceptance by the great reading public. Yet it has not done so badly...