COMMUNISTS: Call on Me

Pennsylvania's 67-year-old Senator Edward Martin was wounded, gassed and decorated (D.S.C.) in World War I and wound up his military career a major general of Pennsylvania's 28th Division of the National Guard. He also acquired a soldierly bluntness, and last week he had an opportunity to use it.

In Washington for a two-day "encampment" were some 450 Communist veterans of World War II. Reinforced by such articulate nonveterans as Singer Paul Robeson and Party Secretary Eugene Dennis, the Red vets denounced Greek-Turkish aid and demanded a federal works program. They also started...

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