Word: pro-communist
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When the Archbishop of Canterbury was photographed presenting the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, pro-Communist "Red Dean" of Canterbury, to Princess Margaret (see cut), the conservative Daily Mail fumed: "Let us look behind these smiling figures. One of them is a church dignitary who has identified himself with a regime which is out to destroy both religion and royalty ... the supporter of a system which proclaims that religion is 'the opiate of the people' ... It may be said with perverse pride, 'This could only happen in England.' But should it happen in England...
...Hartford, Conn, last week, justice tried to decide whether a housewife should be punished for accusing of pro-Communism two people who certainly ran with Communist fronts, if they did not actually stand with them. Said Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith to the jury in the case: "In the present climate of this country there can be no question that to charge a man with being a Communist or pro-Communist or a traitor does hold him up to ridicule and contempt...
...Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, 69, Harvard-educated authority on Russian drama, grandson of Poet Longfellow and Author Richard Henry Dana (Two Years Before the Mast); of a heart ailment; in Cambridge, Mass. He was fired from the Columbia faculty in 1917 for pacifism, barred from England in 1932 for pro-Communist activities...
...called McCarthy's "base and contemptible" charges that he was a top Soviet agent. But it was a little difficult, he declared, to decide just what he now stood accused of. The first time he had been named by McCarthy he had been let off as a simple "pro-Communist." Then he had become "the top Russian espionage agent," as suddenly had been demoted again to a "bad policy risk...
Harlow Shapley, director of the College Observatory, was named as pro-Communist by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis) yesterday at a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee investigating Communist influence in the State Department. McCarthy said Shapley has been connected with at least 36 Communist-front organizations...