Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into New York City's sports stadium on Randall's Island one night last week marched some 550 young men and women from the earth's six continents. They tramped across the field bearing red torches and the flags of 58 nations. The crowd of 23,000 cheered their foreign songs, their folk dances, their gymnastics, a collegiate shag performed by U. S. students. But it roared loudest when the spotlight fell on 13 delegates from Spain, jumped to its feet to chant the 'Loyalist anthem. For this was no Olympic sports festival but a pacifists...
Boycotting the Congress on the ground that it was Red were Fascist Germany and Italy, the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America. And in Washington, where the Dies committee was investigating "unAmerican activities," onetime Red J. B. Matthews testified that Communists were exploiting innocent bigwigs as "fronts" for the Congress. Thereupon Vassar College's President Henry Noble MacCracken, chair man of the U. S. sponsoring committee, snorted: "I think I have sufficient intelligence to know when I am being exploited...
...Red, black or yellow, the delegates (average age: about 25) set about saving the world with enthusiasm and organized cheering. Japan's delegates argued amiably with China's, the Socialists, not so amiably, with the Communists. A lone pro-fascist delegate from Eire. Seumas Ua hEamhthaigh (pronounced: Shamus O'Heavey), soon made himself at home. Youngest delegate was Spain's Margarita Robles, 14, oldest was East Africa's Ernest Kalibala, 38, born a bushman and now a school principal...
...Defense of Volochayevsk (Len-film). An exhibition of the ease with which the Red Siberian partisans took over the Japanese in 1918, by the agile directors of Chapayev. Good sequence: Japanese machine gunners, surrounded in a forest, firing frantically into the underbrush and being knocked over like clay ducks...
...amity (see p. 9), Ice Age glaciers had been over the place, scupping out the wide St. Lawrence river bed and garnishing it, like a great dish of trifle, with thousands of inviting islands. Since then many men have visited the Thousand Islands-legendary tribes of gravel-knoll dwellers, red-paint people; then Indians and white men-but until one day last week no summer sightseer could drive through them in his automobile...