Word: pollitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a simon-pure Communist campaign run from the top. The statements and tactics of Communist Leader Harry Pollitt, the Daily Worker and others make this clear enough...
Party Leader Harry Pollitt made the big speech, and more significant than what he said was the non-Communist reaction to it. Wrote the Manchester Guardian: "Mr. Pollitt was on his mettle, for this is the first conference since the Party became entirely respectable. It was a speech that would have adorned the chair at any Labor Party conference. It breathed the highest patriotism and the sweetest of moderation. The references to the war were fervid, those to Russia not overdone...
Shrewd Harry Pollitt made his request at a time when Communist prestige is growing in Britain, not only because of Russia's great fight, but because the present British Communist line is anti-strike and pro-production for Russia's and Britain's Armies. If submitted to a Labor Party convention, the request might get a sizable approving vote...
...with Labor's leaders still entertaining a robust distrust of British Communists, there was little chance of a Labor convention voting on the Communist request. Harry Pollitt was well aware of this when he wrote his letter last week. But Harry Pollitt had a purpose: the Communists are now on record in favor of unity on the Left, and this may win them new adherents-at Labor's expense...
...Labor Party's convention voted in favor of a request similar to Pollitt...