The small, bald, bespectacled man in the brown suit, who was freed on a technicality in London last week, looked like a Hearst cartoon of a New Deal scholar. He was no such thing: he was Gerhart Eisler,
German national, onetime resident of Sunnyside, L.I., onetime Communist ringmaster in the U.S., who had been jailed in Britain since he was carried, kicking and screaming like a child in a tantrum, from the Polish motor-ship Batory, bound for Gdynia (TIME, May 23).
Eisler had been convicted in Washington in 1947 for swearing to false...
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