Communists

Zemplen was a strong-minded individualist who opposed any totalitarian system, from Nazism to Communism. He was briefly jailed toward the end of World War II by the Hungarian Fascists for refusing to join in the evacuation of the Technical University to Germany when the Russian armies advanced on Budapest. He was also strongly opposed to the Communists. 

Includes the United States and Canada. Excludes Communist and ex-Communist areas. 

Comecon = Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Communist-bloc nations). 

Per capita income rate of growth Presence or absence of militant or Communist-dominated unions... 

There are at present about a dozen manufacturers outside the Communist bloc. Amongst major producers, in addition to those already mentioned, are Bayer, Rhone-Poulenc, Wacker-Chemie, Toshiba, Toray and Shinetsu. 

Finally, our impressions of the 1987 Soviet Union included the pleasure and pleasant surprise of a fleeting visit to our conference by Andre Sakharov, the great freedom fighter and distinguished theoretical physicist. Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize but to no avail, he was not allowed by his communist repressors to leave Moscow to attend the award ceremonies in Sweden. 

Further, the authors have carefully examined and documented the public health and environmental impacts of pesticide use in the USSR. The USSR was the largest country by territory in the world and the use of pesticide here was enormous. As the authors have shown, this happened mostly because the USSR s Communistic rulers decided at the end of the 1960 s — to turn all chemical weaponry plants (constructed in the beginning of the cold war) to pesticide production. With rich government subsidies, pesticides were distributed through all collective farms The Soviet official policy, the chemicalisation of agriculture, was an attempt to overcome its prominent ineffectiveness in crop production. 

Alex Rosenberg. But there are still incentive effects in those countries. It is just the pay-offs that are different. You have to work hard to climb the ladder in the Communist Party, as opposed to working hard in climbing the corporate ladder. 

The crucial question to ask after reading this book is What will happen if these men and the forces they represent align themselves with Communist aggression rather than with the freedom-loving peoples of the world ... 

What did the Asiatics really want They wanted economic reform, including land reform. They wanted national independence, and this desire had led to Asiatic nationalism. "Asia for the Asiatics" was the rallying cry. The Communists had appealed to these irrepressibly popular urges for years, and with some success. But 1945 had still not been too late for us to take moderate action. 

I wondered what Pauley would say. "It s bad poker," he had once remarked to me in Tokyo, "to assume that all these Communists in Europe and Asia are being made by Joe Stalin or Karl Marx." But Pauley thought my interest in Farben was unusually intense often he had referred to me as "I.G. Joe." I wondered whether he, as a businessman, might not shy away from the idea of criminally prosecuting foreign businessmen with close connections in this country. 

I stopped at a newsstand. The Farben issue was not dead in Berlin. One of the Soviet-licensed papers featured the charge that I.G. Farben was still going strong. The workers were exhorted to rise against their "Western oppressors." That reminded me of the Communist line I had heard everywhere I went You have... 

I made my usual morning visit to the snack bar to get a cup of coffee and pick up the Stars and Stripes. The lead story prolonged my recess. It was a blast by Representative George Don-dero of Michigan against Secretary of War Patterson for his "failure to ferret out Communist sympathizers " who had "infiltrated into key Army posts."... 

During the next days I was called on often to answer this charge. There was quite a flurry at the Grand Hotel, center of American community life in Numberg. One day Judge Shake, a medium-built man with a look of honest curiosity, greeted me from his chair in the lobby. He was reading the Stars and Stripes. It was ridiculous — but I felt ill at ease. Four of the ten people named I didn t know at all. Suppose one of them was a Communist I shook off the question. 

I laughed. After all, the Tribunal may have been just curious. You could not overlook the flexing of Communist muscles in Prague every day for the past week, there had been agitation there. It would be natural for the judges to be curious about what had happened, under the Communist regime, to Szpilfogel s land. 

It took a while for the shock to lessen. After being forced to stay on in a coalition government, President Benes had lost his voice. Before long, Czechoslovakia would fall to the Communists. 

The Marble Room was a chaos of unfinished sentences drinks were finished, then quickly replenished. Someone on the staff came over to report to Sprecher and me the reaction of one of the judges. The reaction was that the Communist pressure on Czechoslovakia would result in "wanton aggression committed in the threatening presence of the Red Army."... 

I know," Sprecher said. "They ask for a theory, and we give them one that could mean something. But, mark my words, whether they say it or not, they will feel this way If a trial couldn t stop the Communists in Czechoslovakia today, what good is it to harp about yesterday And that is precisely what all good Communists would like them to think."... 

Before 1933, Ter Meer had followed the unsteady program of the National Socialists, and he didn t like their program or their methods. They seemed to him little different from the Communists ... 

In other words, a Congressman elected by the people of the United States is placed upon a par, before American soldiers, with persons who have clearly provable Communist records.. .. In other words, when I expose a pro-Communist agent, 1 am exposed to the fire of the War Department and an unofficial Army paper for my services to my country. 

Q. You also advised that a definitive statement from a responsible official emanate as follows "Questions have been raised concerning the status of Germany s so-called storm troops. These number about 2,500,000 men between the ages of 18 and 60, physically well trained and disciplined, but not armed, not prepared for war, and organized only for the purpose of preventing for all time the return of the Communist peril."... You made such a statement to your client ... 

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