Anna Louise Strong, longtime devoted follower of the U.S.S.R., arrived at La Guardia Airport last week all bundled up in a heavy fur coat. She had needed it; the Moscow winter and the chill blast of the Kremlin deportation order were enough to freeze anyone. Her reception at La Guardia was chilly too: a gauntlet of 15 solemn New York cops, two FBI men who pinned her with a Federal Grand Jury subpoena, and a pack of 50 reporters. Why, the reporters wanted to know, had the Russians thrown her out after she had plugged passionately for the Red cause for...
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