Word: pro-communist
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...Huxley was rebuked because she, her husband and some other delegates had shown their disgust at the billingsgate of the pro-Communist intellectuals, who formed a majority of the stacked meeting...
...planning to trap someone of Wallace's stature, but they were not sure just who the quarry would be. They began in Sidney Hillman's C.I.O.-P.A.C., whose simple objective was to make labor's influence felt in the Democratic Party. But the secret aim of pro-Communist operators like Hillman's counsel, John Abt, was to weld radical labor groups, disaffected Democrats and odds & ends of disgruntled Americans into a third party. Obviously, they would need a candidate. Collaborating with the proCommunists were such New Dealers as Beanie Baldwin, a onetime Wallace aide...
...three groups into which the convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...
...Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Pierre Gelinas, editor of Montreal's pro-Communist weekly Combat (circ. 2,500), had barely settled down to work one day last week when a squad of policemen clumped into his office. Cried 23-year-old Editor Pierre Gelinas: "What the hell have you come here for?" The cops told him to stand up. They searched him, took away his Labor Progressive (Communist) Party card, and hustled him out of the building. They seized 1,000 copies of Combat, and gathered up office files, pamphlets and pictures of Stalin, Molotov and Canadian Communist Leader Tim Buck. Then they sealed...