Foreign News: Those Lovable Communists

Harry Pollitt, the thick-jowled boss of Britain's Communist Party, might be pleased with Communist triumphs elsewhere, but he was worried about the party's declining membership in Britain. Admonishing the 650 delegates to the British party's 23rd national congress, Pollitt said last week: "It is high time that we stopped creating the impression that does so much to frighten other people from joining the party, that we are some kind of human beings who never eat, sleep, play, dream or even make love."

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