Nobody But Us Agrarians

A Hong Kong dispatch in the New York Herald Tribune (July 25) describes an American-manned cadre now “working in Peking to promote Communist China’s ideological line against the U.S.” Dean of the apparat is 79-year-old Anna Louise Strong, whose “most recent exploit for Red China was a trip to Hanoi in June as leader of the American delegation to an anti-American solidarity conference. . . . While she was in Hanoi Mrs. Strong delivered an English-language broadcast for American soldiers and Marines in South Vietnam.” Also on the delegation to Hanoi was Frank Coe, who now “lives in Peking, and writes often for Chinese Communist publications.” Among other active members of this Peking set the dispatch lists Israel Epstein.

The three names rang a nostalgic bell, as if I were immersed once again in the sea of transcripts and documents out of which I distilled The Web of Subversion. How often those names sailed by!

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A Hong Kong dispatch in the New York Herald Tribune (July 25) describes an American-manned cadre now “working in Peking to promote Communist China’s ideological line against the U.S.” Dean of the apparat is 79-year-old Anna Louise Strong, whose “most recent exploit for Red China was a trip to Hanoi in June as leader of the American delegation to an anti-American solidarity conference. . . . While she was in Hanoi Mrs. Strong delivered an English-language broadcast for American soldiers and Marines in South Vietnam.” Also on the delegation to Hanoi was Frank Coe, who now “lives in Peking, and writes often for Chinese Communist publications.” Among other active members of this Peking set the dispatch lists Israel Epstein.

The three names rang a nostalgic bell, as if I were immersed once again in the sea of transcripts and documents out of which I distilled The Web of Subversion. How often those names sailed by!