World: The Women's Club (Marxist Model)

The belles and battle-axes of Communism gathered last week at the Kremlin for the World Women's Congress. There were 2,000 delegates from more than a hundred lands. Buxom Russian comrades in flowered prints mingled with Bantus in striped robes. Cute young chicks from Rome and Bologna sat next to iron-jawed veterans who had stuck hatpins in policemen's horses in long-ago street riots in Berlin and Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Madrid.

Some seemed to have gentled with age. Dolores Ibarruri, 68, the firebrand who was known as La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, now looks like someone's kind old grandmother. Others have...

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