id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005459531 Ross, Irwin, 1919- The Communists, friends or foes of civil liberties? 1950 .txt text/plain 9337 403 55 Between August, 1939 and June, 1941, when Stalin was aligned with Hitler and determined to impress him with the sincerity of his intentions, it was to the interest of the USSR that foreign Communists become pro-Hitler by opposing the im- perialist war”; American Communists obligingly undertook the pacifist” chores expected of them. One of the major reasons for the confusion which still reigns in some liberal minds over the true nature of Communism is the pro- fessed passion proclaimed by American Communists for our tradi- tional freedoms. cache/_005459531.txt txt/_005459531.txt