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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just as U. S. history proved that freedom released man's creative impulses, led to the development of productive forces, stimulated inventions, spurred the commercial development of them, European experiences under Fascist and Communist dictatorships proved that freedom was never lost by a direct assault. He wrote: "The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; [in] slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent actions against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Symbol | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...prominent Communists, Nicholas Dozenberg, a founder of the U. S. Communist Party, and Robert William Wiener, treasurer of the Party,* were arrested last week. Dozenberg's alleged offense: lending his naturalization papers for Earl Browder's use in 1921. Wiener's alleged offense: illegal residence in the U. S. Plump, balding Robert Wiener pleaded not guilty before a Federal judge in Manhattan, heard a U. S. Attorney call him "the rankest sort of impostor," charge that under the aliases of Wiener, Weiner, A. Benson, A. Blake, he was really Welwel Warszower from Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Wiener, Weiner | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...Communist fund drive in New York State raised $205,000 in the last 100 days. Gloated Communist Money-Raiser Alex Leith: ''Every time Dies opens his mouth now, our mail gets heavier, and all the envelopes have good news inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Wiener, Weiner | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...signs of toughening her stand against both Germany and Russia. At week's end Foreign Minister Sandier, whose head has been demanded by both countries because of his "pro-British policies," still carried his portfolio. All but 50 members walked out of the Chamber of Deputies when a Communist got up to speak. Named active commander in chief of all Sweden's armed forces was 62-year-old Lieut. General Olof Gerhard Thörnell, an expert on Europe's armies, who announced: "The defense of . . . the Fatherland puts everything else in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Observe in one corner the Communist organ, the Daily Worker, and in the other, the New York Times. The slogan of the former: "People's Champion of Liberty, Progress, Peace, and Prosperity" and of the latter: "All the News That's Fit to Print". Quoth the Worker on December 1 and 2, "The newspapers of this country are giving the American people a heavy dose of war propaganda," and "Twenty-five thousand newspapers lied to their readers yesterday . . . . . the respectable New York Times showed them how to do it." But the accused hat! answered a month before in an editorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YOUR HOME-TOWN PAPER, SIR | 12/15/1939 | See Source »

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