Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Typical German propagandist broadcasts designed to shake British morale contain minute details of what goes on inside individual British aircraft factories, tidbits of shop gossip which it would be easy for British Communist workers to pick up. Six-foot Rajani Palme Dutt, who succeeded Harry Pollitt as secretary of the Party (Pollitt is still a working member), is an Indian who has spent his life in Europe as a political agitator, stands well with Stalin and Molotov...
...strong man of the British trades-union movement, rushed to Scotland for a string of speeches against Communism. The working-class districts of Glasgow and Edinburgh are the noisiest in Britain, and there Orator Bevin was fiercely heckled by workers, who jumped up at his meetings and gave the Communist clenched-fist salute. In his roaring rebuttals Big Ernie went further than any other present British Cabinet member to speak his mind about Communism...
...Government has got to face the issue as a matter of war strategy. . . . Working men and women in Scottish industry, don't you allow any minority to create a condition to force the State to take action it doesn't want to take [i.e., suppress the British Communist Party]. . . . I am not going to be a party to punishing 99 per cent to stop one per cent, but if there are some subversive elements trying to interfere with the war effort, I will deal with that one per cent...
...pronounced Joe) has few talents and no virtues. He was educated in Japan. He looks like an old-fashioned Chinese scholar, but has the exaggerated manners of a Japanese corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...