Word: socials
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wallace declared that 1) the Progressive Party is not controlled by Communists; 2) Communism and Wallace's so-called "progressive capitalism" have many common social objectives, and he welcomed "the support of those who believed in such objectives"; 3) he would "never tolerate those whose purpose it is to destroy our government by force...
...First Duty. The U.S. is preparing for a "barbaric war," Ehrenburg cried. Up rose New York's Dr. Bryn J. Hovde, director of the New School for Social Research. He said that the Russian talk was the kind governments use to justify a "premeditated military attack." If the Communists really believed all of Fadeev's charges, snapped Hovde, "then my own people can only judge itself terribly threatened and unite in preparation for the worst." Oxford Don A.J.P. Taylor, whose BBC contract was canceled because he was too "pro-Russian," told the Russians: "The first duty of intellectuals...
...American nation must not deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus of the living church from the Apostolic age down through the days of monastic orders to the Reformation and liberal humanism...
...Lanny Budd books have been published or are being published in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Holland, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Norway, Palestine, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland and (in a condensed form) the Soviet Union. With a picture of the U.S. which Europeans, especially Social Democrats, find entirely understandable, Sinclair is one of the two or three most popular American writers abroad...
...good people are united in their hatred of oppression and their faith in social progress. Their eccentricities and personal misconduct (especially of a sexual nature) are viewed indulgently, so long as they retain this essential faith. On the other hand, the slightest expression of intolerance on the part of a captain of industry is regarded as incipient Fascism...