Word: pro-communist
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...Wants to Be? Many British readers were outraged by the fact that (as one put it) "the unspeakable, anti-British, anti-empire and pro-Communist Bevan" should be allowed to publicize himself and "his Moscow-trained Communist dictator friend Tito" in a "decent . . . newspaper." The Standard, owned by Sevan's personal friend and political enemy Lord Beaverbrook, replied that Mr. Sevan's report had been printed "because it is news...
...America in Europe, to the neglect of the defense of America in Asia ... It is unfortunate, but true, that the State Department has been affected by a group who have interpreted Asiatic problems to the advantage of Russia rather than that of the United States . . . The truth about the pro-Communist State Department group has not yet been revealed...
Sherman tried to get pro-Communist Congressman Vito Marcantonio to back his new friend. The three of them, he recounted, once met at the Maryland farm of one Julius Lulley, proprietor of Harvey's Restaurant in Washington. "Lulley had a bar," Sherman recalled sentimentally, "and we sat around [it] a bit and then . . . O'Dwyer and Marcantonio went out into the garden . . . and took their shirts off and even got to singing together . . ." The duet did not become political. "While the Little Flower [Fiorello LaGuardia] lives, I will be for him and with...
...young men who, back in 1944, urged that the U.S. make friends with China's Communists as a matter of self-interest. Born and educated in China, he joined the State Department in 1931, served in U.S. consulates all over China, at one time was a friend of pro-Communist Author Agnes Smedley. He is married to the daughter of Henry Grady, U.S. Ambassador to Iran (see below...
Next morning, police and steel-helmeted soldiers bearing fixed bayonets raided Tudeh headquarters, closed down two pro-Communist newspapers, and the government clamped martial law on Teheran. Tudeh leaders vanished. Harriman called on Premier Mohamed Mossadeq, talked for 70 minutes, made plans for a second meeting. For the moment, the Tudeh had been held. Teheran, tensely quiet, waited for the Harriman miracle...