Posted on 12/06/2001 3:10:47 PM PST by PatrickHenry
Both joined the United States Communist Party and were frequently investigated and harassed by government officials; for many years they were denied passports, for example. But by 1958 they had grown disillusioned with Communism and left the party.
Back in the 1930's and 1940's many young Americans joined the Communist Party .... many also traveled to Spain to fight against Franco and the Nazis. Fighting the Nazi's and Franco's fascists in Spain was considered to be a brave and romatic endeavor at the time ... Have you ever read Ernest Hemmingway? Can anyone reasonably call Hemmingway a Commy?
Even Ronald Reagan was attracted by the appeal of socialist ideology in the late 1930's.
My grandfather (a very conservative self-made millionaire) at one time was a "Wobbly" (Member of the "Socialist Workers of the World" Party) because he was upset with the way large companies were exploiting women and children who were paid pennies a day to perform piecework. Later, he became a rum runner and casino owner in Nevada and California.
Robert Treuhaft was a radical lawyer and crusader against injustice with a Socialist point of view. He denounced Communism, most likely because of the excesses of Russia under Stalin. However, I also suggest that he died quite wealthy because the law made him rich. He was not really a Commy.
Hitlery is not really a Commy. She is a fundamentally and totally corrupt person without a trace of conscience who only desires power for power's sake.
She is founding member of the "New Democrats" ["New Social Democrats"] in the U.S. which makes her closer to being a type of National Socialist than being a Communist.
People loved Bob [Treuhaft] because of his manifest integrity and courage. He had an instinctive respect for others and was a mentor to countless young lawyers, including Hillary Clinton, and his black receptionist, whom he encouraged to go to law school, said: "He was the wings under my wings."
In high school, Hillary was a conservative Goldwater Girl. But throughout her college years, Hillary identified with far Left politics. At her Wellesley commencement speech, she railed against capitalism and criticized the keynote speaker, Senator Edward Brooke, for being ?out of touch.? Interestingly, in 1993, Hillary had her Wellesley senior thesis placed under ?lock and key.? (Washington Times 7/13/1999). While attending Yale Law, Hillary?s politics became very radical. She interned with Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children?s Defense Fund (CDF), and later worked for Stalinist lawyer Robert Treuhaft.
Who is Hillary Rodham Clinton?.
Bobby Seale's lawyer introduced Hillary to Robert Treuhaft and his wife Jessica Mitford. Both were avowed communists, and Treuhaft for years served as the attorney for the Communist Party, USA. As the result of this meeting, Hillary spent the summer of 1971 as an intern in Treuhaft?s law office in Berkeley.
When she arrived at Wellesley College in 1965, she discovered beauty and truth. "It was a time of surging idealism," writes Sheehy, "with bards such as Joan Baez crooning in her crystal-pure soprano." Later, while at Yale Law School, Hillary spent a summer working for Robert Treuhaft, the Communist attorney and defender of the Black Panthers in Oakland, California. (He was also the husband of Jessica Mitford.) "Hillary was only mildly interested in the Panther cause," Treuhaft says, "but she did want to work for a left-wing movement law firm. Anyone who went to college or law school would have known our law firm was a Communist law firm."
Hitlery is not really a Commy.
Doesn't look like Treuhaft ever "denounced Communism" if the following quote is accurate:
"Hillary was only mildly interested in the Panther cause," Treuhaft says, "but she did want to work for a left-wing movement law firm. Anyone who went to college or law school would have known our law firm was a Communist law firm."http://www.nationalreview.com/20dec99/nordlinger122099.html
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
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I find this kind of stuff fascinating...
"Miss Mitford was recovering from the loss of her first husband, Esmond Romilly,
Winston Churchill's nephew, who had been killed on a Canadian Air Force raid
over Germany and with whom she had eloped to fight with the International
Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
Mr. Treuhaft and Miss Mitford were married in 1943"
Heavy involvement in, of all things - the Funeral Industry... hummm, what did Hitlery learn?
Yep.
(Redbloodedam., thanks for your continuing pings on all Chinese and North Korean articles. Very much appreciated.)
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