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However, New Deal extremists were prepared to countenance violence if it should become necessary to accomplish their objectives. In an address before the American Economic Society in Washington in 1932 Professor Tugwell said: "There is no denying that the contemporary situation in the United States has explosive possibilities. The future is becoming visible in Russia; the present is bitterly in contrast; politicians, theorists, and vested interests seem to conspire ideally for the provocation to violence of a long patient people.

Matthews, in The American Mercury (June, 1953). COMMUNISM AND THE NEW DEAL 35 Court who dissented from a majority decision denying a stay of execution for the Rosenbergs. of unscrupulous yellow journalism" by John H. Wigmore, renowned Dean of Northwestern University Law School. Dean Wigmore, writing in the Boston Transcript, said the facts were "demonstrative of the cruel and libelous falsity of the whole tenor of the plausible pundit's article" in The Atlantic Monthly. All of this is set forth in the record of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing on Frankfurter's nomination to be a Supreme Court justice in January, 1939.

This report, included in the annual report of the Labor Party's executive committee and published May 9, 1947, said: "After a general discussion Mr. Stalin said. he was gratified to know that two great countries were traveling in the socialist-airection. -way, whereas' Britaia-was going in the roundabout-British way, to which there was an aside that 'we' had a habit of getting there. He felt that in both countries we could reach the socialist objective. They (the Russians) recognized that though socialism could be obtained by other methods than through the soviets, they believed that theirs was the shortest, even if the most difficult way, and that it may be accomplished by bloodshed.

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