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This news brought into sharp focus the fact that Adolf Hitler, soon after his Berlin-Moscow Deal (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939), obtained a reversal by Joseph Stalin of the policy of the British Communist Party. Out as secretary of the British Communist Party went Harry Pollitt, who up to the day Moscow's orders were received had been urging British workers and Communists to help win the war. "The Communist Party supports the war, believing it to be a just war," had been Secretary Pollitt's policy. On the orders of Stalin, Pollitt made a complete recantation, swore...
Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
...Rasil Pollitt '40, Alan Gottieb '41. Laurence B. Grose '41, David Fleischman '41. Laurence Speiber 1L. Walter Rosen '42, Maurice Freedman '43, Richard E. Stern...
...delegates to the Congress are: Edward Ames '42, David P. Bennett '42, Fleischman, Maurice S. Friedman '43, Edward B. Ginsberg, Jr. '43, Alan R. Gottlieb '41, Lawrence B. Grose '41, Samuel S. Hermann '40, Jonas N. Muller '40, Basil R. Pollitt '41, Walter K. Rosen '42, and Irwin Ross...
...were ready to join the war against German Fascism. But that pamphlet was later withdrawn, and on Oct. 7 the Party's Central Committee printed a "correction" of the September manifesto. Britain, France and Poland were blamed equally with Germany for starting an "imperialist war." Last week Secretary Pollitt lost his job, although not his Party membership...