Word: sovietize
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...means to combat them before it was too late. Just as loud, and more vocal, were the outraged counter-cries from the Communist Party, meeting in New York City for its national convention. In a report which took him four hours to read, General Secretary Earl Browder praised Soviet Russia as the "only one really neutral Great Power" remaining in the world, the protector of weak nations, the "beaconlight" of the working class. Said Browder...
...once to the Chamberlain Government with a brief case full of electric dope which he wanted to sell. Russia, he said, was not too happy about its current arrangement of convenience with Germany. Great Britain had another chance to patch up at least a standoff agreement with the Soviet Union...
Reds. Working at cross-purposes until the Soviet-German Pact clarified the atmosphere, Communists and Nazis in Mexico now have a common aim: to smear the U. S., Great Britain and France. The aggressive Mexican Communist Party figures chiefly in its control of the all-powerful Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (CTM), whose organ El Popular lambasted Hitler and Mussolini until the day of the Pact, now reviles Roosevelt and the imperialists intent on "dragging Mexico into war." Vicente Lombardo Toledano, dynamic leader of the CTM, has organized and uniformed a formidable army of 200,000 storm troops, drilling...
...editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips together and incidentally off the orthodox Party line was the blatant Soviet tyranny over culture, the Soviet political debacle of the Moscow Trials...
Since then Editor Macdonald has blown a sharp if not widely audible pipe against the New Deal, The New Yorker, TIME ("major house organ for the American business class"), the post 1930 Soviet cinema. No less snappish is the Partisan Review theatre critic, Mary McCarthy (Mrs. Edmund Wilson), who breaks Broadway butterfly hits on an ironbound esthetic wheel. At the peak of Partisan Review sophistication stands Art Critic Morris, whom practically nothing pleases. "It is something less than an exaggeration," writes Critic Morris with his characteristic faint shudder, "to state that the painting and sculpture being 'encouraged...