Word: valtin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program of the nation to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...
...with non-interventionist implications were such as would discredit our point of view (The Wave of the Future). Though manifestly intended to provide Harvard students with a factual and interpretive basis for understanding the issues of today, the "war library" has eventually emerged with the lurid confessional of Jan Valtin prominent among its volumes. I consider this an insult to the intelligence of undergraduates...
...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. The raiders found no addresses...
Back in 1923, when the U. S. was beginning to worry about its gang wars, young Jan Valtin and 27 fellow Communists, armed with guns and hand grenades, attacked five policemen in a station in Hamburg ("From the floor a policeman was still firing. The stevedore crushed his face with a kick of his heavy boot. Another policeman had the side of his neck torn away; he was bleeding to death under a table. . . ."). While the U. S. was worrying about the depression in 1930, Conspirator Valtin was carrying money from Antwerp to Montevideo, glued into the lining...
...morbid seriousness. Citizens read about it, brood about it, usually come to the moody conclusion that the U. S. is a violent, lawless, desperate land, with a mighty black record compared to other nations. With this belief foreigners have been prompt to agree. But to many a reader of Valtin's real-life thriller, it came with a sudden shock of realization that other nations have their mad dogs too. Compared to them, such U. S. gangsters as Al Capone are very small change...