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Masquerade Ended? Such eminent and veteran haters of Stalinist Communism as Socialist Norman Thomas proclaimed a final exposure of Stalinist hypocrisy, approaching dissolution of the Communist Party in the U. S. They counted without the Party's resilient internal structure, its genius for rationalization. Its first week in gyration produced no public defections of bigwig Reds, no convincing evidence of mass withdrawals even among its Jewish members. Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs...
...last week, was not a Russian, but an Austrian, whose fiercest battles were "waged about a roulette wheel in Paris." Furthermore, said the New Masses, General Krivitsky had not even written the Satevepost articles, but had had them ghosted for him by Isaac Don Levine, anti-Stalinist biographer of Stalin and some-time writer for the Hearst press...
Then they stopped, like a mongrel dog pack, and began fighting among themselves. Anarchist hated Communist almost as much as he hated Rebel. Trotskyist bickered with Stalinist. Good bourgeoisie were horrified at the confiscation of private property. The Catalan autonomists resented even the least suggestion from Madrid...
...recent discernible signs of separatist feeling have come from the Soviet Ukraine. Stalinist purges seem to have taken no more lives in the Ukraine than in some other parts of Russia. The same, however, cannot be said of Poland, where Ukrainian deputies recently were bold enough to demand autonomy for Galicia. The Nazi agitation for redistribution of land is likely to appeal to impoverished, disenfranchised, long-suffering Galician peasants. The Polish feudal rulers, caught between Naziism in the West and Communism in the East, are more likely, when faced with a final choice, to choose Hitler than Stalin...
...From Mexico last summer Poet Breton and Painter Diego Rivera issued a furious manifesto, calling on all independent revolutionary intellectuals, "whose voice is drowned by the odious tumult of the regimented falsifiers," to form a world-wide union against the oppression of art by any political regime, especially the Stalinist...