Word: annas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna Louise Strong, longtime devoted follower of the U.S.S.R., arrived at La Guardia Airport last week all bundled up in a heavy fur coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause...
...same time, Mrs. Anna Gray was renamed treasurer, George dePinto renamed vice-president, and Edward Sugrue returned as secretary...
...apparently the revolution had outgrown Mother Strong. Last week New York's Daily Worker glowingly observed that for her reporting on China, 63-year-old Anna Louise Strong really deserved the Pulitzer Prize. Four days later, the Kremlin made a curt announcement: "The notorious agent and American journalist, A. L. Strong . . . was arrested by organs of the state security on Feb. 14. Miss Strong is incriminated in espionage and subversive activities against the Soviet Union...
Kremlin's Reward. No one was sure what Anna Louise Strong had done to get this stunning blow. It might be that the party line, which she had followed faithfully for so long, had left her behind somewhere in one of its sudden sharp turns. She might have swallowed her own propaganda, in which she had frequently explained that various Communist parties were simply national patriotic movements; as of the winter of 1948, that was known in Moscow as the "nationalist heresy." Whatever her offense,the Kremlin had in its own way rewarded Anna Louise Strong for a lifetime...
This week Moscow announced that Anna Louise Strong had been deported from Russia. As with all her other idols and deities, Disciple Strong had lost the Communist god whom she had served so well...