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...raid drew attention to the New Leader's main claim to distinction-as bellwether for exile and native anti-Communists in the U. S. Among them: Willi Schlamm, leader at 16 of the Austrian Communist Party, one of the first to break with Stalin; Eugene Lyons (Assignment in Utopia); the late General Walter Krivitsky. For Editor Riesel these characteristic contributors afforded a probable reason for the visit: Communist footpads were looking for the address of Richard Julius Herman Krebs, alias Jan Valtin, ex-Communist author of Out of the Night, currently best-selling Baedeker of the Stalinist underworld...
...Utopia in Arkansas...
More peacefully, but as relentlessly as geometry, the closing circle of Mexican politics was choking off the revolution of Cárdenas. In 1934 he had come into office to establish Mexico's first non-militaristic Government. He began putting his dreams of Utopia into effect by redistributing land to the peasants, nationalizing the railroads, expropriating foreign oil concessions. But his espousal of the little man brought the full power of the militaristic Right against him. As he fought off the Right the militant Left crept in behind him. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, secretary of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), began...
...Dukhobors ("spirit-wrestlers") congealed as a sect about 1700 in the reign of Peter the Great. By obeying only the "voice of God within," they sought to live in harmony, achieve Utopia. They soon developed a theocracy which, though as narrow as the Tsar's and Orthodoxy's, was at least of their own choosing. After generations of persecution, they were exiled en masse to Caucasia...
...Manhattan, where he could get a good press, ripped off a fiery statement drubbing the Cárdenas-Camachistas up & down the line. He accused them of consorting with Communism, of falsifying the election returns, of failing to improve domestic conditions "after six years of short cuts to Utopia." Shrewdly he hinted opposition to the confiscation of U. S. interests in Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick to the point of revolt. . . . At the proper time I will return to Mexico and claim the high...