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...financed the Nazis as a bulwark against Communism), but failed to detect a social upheaval in Germany. The latter should now be clear enough for him and everybody else. In his last speech, Adolf Hitler described the present war as a social conflict between predatory, hypocritical plutocracies and great, proletarian States like Germany. Last week the Nazi hierarchy was busily ding-donging the theorem that the Third Reich is fighting the classes for the masses, canceled Herr Thyssen's citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Reich v. Plutocrats | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

...Communists of Gitlow's memoirs are in dead earnest about the "proletarian revolution"; their activities frequently have serious consequences for their followers and U. S. labor. But they figure nevertheless in scene after scene of political opera bouffe which even the most gifted satirist would be proud to have invented. Typical scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Party Life | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Russo-Finnish negotiations at Moscow, and who can match most Soviet bigshots in proletarian experience. He once worked as a miner in the U. S. The Soviets were not so happy about Minister Tanner; the Soviet radio quickly called him one of the "madmen of Helsinki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Arise, Finland! | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...slight, soft-voiced Gustavus Myers has written a sequel which leftists are not likely to crib. To declare that big U. S. fortunes are ending in the natural course of things is bad news for those who advocate ending them by "proletarian" revolution. Far less detailed than its predecessor, also far livelier, The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes goes back a long way to explain its title. Key of Myers' argument is the U. S. tradition against special privileges that are due to accident of birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Vanishing Assets | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...blond, fattening, ruddy man of 43 who received her summons had a bitter and significant story for Congressman Martin Dies. That worthy and his co-committeemen could have read the story at any time since 1937, when Fred Erwin Beal told all in his book, Proletarian Journey. But a detour for Prisoner Beal from North Carolina to Washington made more headlines for Mr. Dies, focused national attention on an episode which shamed U. S. Communists long before Joseph Stalin signed with Adolf Hitler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Proletarian Detour | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

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