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...Harry Pollitt, the thick-jowled boss of Britain's Communist Party, might be pleased with Communist triumphs elsewhere, but he was worried about the party's declining membership in Britain. Admonishing the 650 delegates to the British party's 23rd national congress, Pollitt said last week: "It is high time that we stopped creating the impression that does so much to frighten other people from joining the party, that we are some kind of human beings who never eat, sleep, play, dream or even make love...
...official party line was laid down in the Daily Worker by Harry Pollitt, secretary general of Britain's Communist Party: "The government and the Tories are making the biggest mistake of their lives if they think they are going to bribe and corrupt the miners ... to produce more coal for war against the Soviet Union...
Parliament rang with "Hear! Hear!" Editorialists cheered. The man-in-the-pub took it all with quiet satisfaction. Dissent was small indeed-but sharp. Cried Communist Harry Pollitt: "The U.S. wants to use this country as its unsinkable aircraft carrier and base for the dispatch of the atomic bomb...
...hypothesis that the Russian army would pursue on our territory an aggressor, I think that Italian people....would have the evident duty to aid in the most efficient way the Soviet army, in order to give that aggressor the lesson he deserves" In Britain, Communist Boss Harry Pollitt threatened sabotage in case of war with the Soviet Union...
...Pollitt then laid out the party tactics. By encouraging Britain's workers to demand higher wages and a bigger slice from British production, Communists would try to upset Cripps's carefully calculated program for economic recovery. "In our anxiety to drive for increased production," said Pollitt, "we have sometimes done far too little in the fight for wages and conditions. . . . No further cuts . . . must be tolerated and steps [must be] taken to secure immediate wage advances to meet the rising costs of living...