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Gorst flung the ultimate Trotskyite insult at the Redgraves: "They are totally Stalinist." Vanessa, for her part, struggled to cast the Red House raid as a cause celebre. The police bust, she eagerly insisted during TV interviews, was "the biggest political attack on any political party since the offices of the Daily Worker were raided...
...York Times's Herbert Matthews defended his open partisanship on the ground that it would have been hypocritical to claim objectivity when he was certain that he was right. George Orwell was just as committed to Republican Spain. But he was able to see that the Stalinist left was as anxious to eliminate Spain's independent left as it was to defeat Franco...
Distortions of the Portugese situation--both deliberate and deluded--are in season, particularly in the American press, which follows the Socialist Party (PSP) lead, representing the struggle as one between the Stalinist Communists and "moderate" democratic welfare-state Socialists. Time magazine, probably the most incendiary of all American mass media, recently headlined a cover story "Red Threat in Portugal," with a background of a monstrous hammer-and-sickle and a picture titled "Lisbon's Troika". At issue in Portugal is neither "troikas" nor Soviet Domination, but a coming choice--perhaps by the end of this year--between revolution and reaction...
...Party boss has also paid frequent lip service to democracy and emphasized a pragmatic reform program to bring all Portuguese "a better life." Although this moderate stance is probably only a ploy, Cunhal has been able to take much of the edge off his own reputation as a ruthless Stalinist. Even the least sympathetic officers have been impressed by the Communist Party's discipline, its effective organization and-perhaps above all-its loyal collaboration with the military. Only rarely does Cunhal drop his guard and publicly deride parliaments, elections and democratic freedoms...
...Stockholm between Soares and Western Europe's leading Social Democrats, who have given his party modest financial support. Soares has also developed good relations with such pragmatic Communist bosses as Italy's Enrico Berlinguer and Spain's Santiago Carrillo, who are wary of Cunhal's Stalinist tendencies. The Soviet Union and other East European nations have been more active in supplying the Communists with funds. Estimates of the amount range from an implausibly high $120 million a year to a more realistic $15 million...