Carrillo ’neath the Elms

‘Well,” said an earnest stranger behind me as we left the meeting of the Yale Political Union, “he’s definitely to the right of George McGovern.” Not a startling statement, on the whole—most people are—except that its subject, the speaker to whom we had just been listening, was the Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party, Santiago Carrillo.

Taking advantage of relaxed visa laws, Carrillo made an 11-day tour of the United States this month. On a four-day fellowship at Yale, he gave a press conference and a speech, and talked to several classes. Later stops included Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

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‘Well,” said an earnest stranger behind me as we left the meeting of the Yale Political Union, “he’s definitely to the right of George McGovern.” Not a startling statement, on the whole—most people are—except that its subject, the speaker to whom we had just been listening, was the Secretary General of the Spanish Communist Party, Santiago Carrillo.

Taking advantage of relaxed visa laws, Carrillo made an 11-day tour of the United States this month. On a four-day fellowship at Yale, he gave a press conference and a speech, and talked to several classes. Later stops included Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the Council on Foreign Relations.