I. (p. 380.) William Z. Foster, History of the Communist Party, p. 289.
2. (p. 380.) Ibid., p. 291.
3. (p. 381.) Angelo Herndon, Let Me Live (New York: Arno Press, .
1969), p. 192.
4. (p. 381.) Ibid., p. 238.
5. (p. 381.) Ibid., p. 240.
6. (p. 382.) "The International Situation and the Tasks of the Sections of the Communist International: Theses on the Report of Comrade
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Kuusinen," lnprecorr, October 6, 1932, pp. 939-43.
7. (p. 384.) Langston Hughes, / Wonder As I Wander (New York: Bill and Wang, 1964), pp. 69-70, 73-80, 89-90, 94-99, See also The Crisis,
January 1933, p. 16. See Louise Thompson's response in the February 1933 issue, p. 37. Delegation members Poston and Moon issued a statement in Berlin claiming that the "forces of American race prejudice have triumphed" in canceling the film. This statement was published in
The New York Times and The Amsterdam News of October 10, 1933.
Similar statements were also issued by two other members of the twentytwo member delegation. Hughes and fourteen others issued a statement repudiating these slanders. See The Daily Worker, October 5, 1933, and October 15, 1933.
8. (p. 385.) Hughes, pp. 76-77.
9. (p. 388.) Walter Duranty of The New York Times is the only American newsman I know of who wrote favorable and accurate reports about the Soviet Union in this period.