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...Ever since Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler signed their non-aggression pact in late August, Communists outside Russia have performed one verbal trapeze act after another. Particularly embarrassed by the Stalin-Hitler handshaking was British Communist Party Secretary Harry Pollitt, a stocky 48-year-old man long known as the British Party's "ablest propagandist and spokesman." Although he had long praised the Soviet Union, defended Dictator Stalin's frequent purges and written powerful pieces against Fascist aggressions, Secretary Pollitt could not see his way to follow the new "party line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Pluggers for Peace | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...role of delegates from the Netherlands and Australia, the Harvard representatives joined 400 students in the twelfth annual session of the mock assembly. Basil R. Pollitt '40 was elected a member of the Continuations Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD GROUP VOTES FOR SOVIET PROPOSAL | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...students arranged before Judge P. Sarsfield Cunniff were Israel H. Scheinberg '40, Paul P. Lurie '38, Joseph Ransohoff '38, Arthur K. Davis '37, Martin J. Pollak '38, Basil R. Pollitt '40 and Arthur Lane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS JAILED FOR UNION PARTICIPATION | 3/9/1937 | See Source »

With Robert Levi '38 presiding as temporary chairman, a temporary executive committee was formed. The members elected to it were Hume Dow '38, William T. Dean, Jr. '37, David E. Feller '38, Robert S. Levy '38, Basil Pollitt '40, Robert R. Ross '37, Boris Yuchu '38, and Margaret Harriss, Radcliffe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEARST MAN ALMOST EVICTED FROM ROOM | 10/7/1936 | See Source »

Vickers is frankly a munitions firm, but huge Imperial Chemical Industries, among whose subsidiaries are six munitions firms, claims that less than 1% of its profits are from munitions. Venerable Chairman Sir John began to frown when Communist Pollitt reeled off the names of holders of I. C. I. stock as "an indictment of the Capitalist class as a whole." Outstanding names: Quaker Cocoamaker Barrow Cadbury (30,875), Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer (833 preference, 5,414 ordinary) and the Right Rev. Edward Thomas Scott Reid, Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (?2,100 in ordinary and preference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Slightly Guilty | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

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