The Nation: "dreary" (fwd)

[Peter K.]

part of the policy process. Note on Perle> Yrs. ago I spent a few
days at the Hoover Institute reading
the Bertram Wolfe papers. Wolfe was a former CPUSA cadre in the 20's
that was a Lovestoneite in the
30's, knew Trotsky and Frieda Kahlo. One of her letters to him still
had traces of her lipstick and
she had dipped the letter in perfume.
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Was Kahlo a Stalinist? I first learned of her when I was in Austin, Texas where
she was the level of a Che Guevara. (Btw, the Washington Monthy
probably takes the cake for mind-numbing dullness.)

Peter