Word: vargas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warning was contained in a ten-page article in the Soviet Government's official magazine World Economics and World Politics. It was modestly titled: "Features of the Internal and Foreign Policy of Capitalist Countries during the Epoch of the General Crisis of Capitalism." The author: Professor Eugene Varga...
Professor Varga was People's Commissar of Finance in Bela Kun's Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919). Like Bela Kun, Varga fled to Moscow when the Hungarian Soviet collapsed. Unlike Bela Kun, who was liquidated in Russia's Great Purge, he prospered and became economic adviser to the Russian Communist Party's Political Bureau. Hence his article is an important clue to what Russia's leading political theorists and practical politicians think about world affairs...
...Varga's chief points...
...fire for the De Mers-Willis girl ("Her glance is as predatory as some wild thing, her movements as lithe and bodily outspoken as those of some jungle creature."). Apparently no one had passed him the word that Esquire had changed its tune. Said Publisher Smart: "The Varga Girl gave you the idea she couldn't do anything but recline. The new Esquire Girl is more wholesome. She's the kind of a girl you'd marry, or try to. She'll be regular art-museum stuff...
Peru-born Artist Vargas, on his own now, intends to put out girlie calendars like the ones he did for Esquire. The new Varga Girl too, for reasons unexplained, is going to be less sultry. Said Vargas: "She's teen-age and decent. She will wear little playsuits and be more covered...