MEET ME ON THE BARRICADES

BROWDER
Disguised as PAUL REVERE in
breeches and cocked hat, standing
beside a spavined palfre y
What a question! Dictatorship of the prole-
tariat?

He grimaces as though he had just
swallowed a dose of distasteful medi-
cine
All that was a misunderstanding, a farcical mis-
understanding. We of the Communist Party are
completely in the camp of progress and democ-
racy. We love America.
A disheveled figure on the outskirts
of the crowd elbows his way for-
ward. There is a striking resem-
blance between the plebeian stranger
and the smooth, well-groomed com-
munist leader. The reporters recog-
nize the newcomer as EARL BROW-
DER, vintage 1932, but they say
nothing
BROWDER I932
Roughly
What was that?

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