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psychological reason why she should identify herself with the poor and downtrodden. So, as Hinrichs reasoned it, she wouldn't be attracted to the Communist theory of life. What's more, she was very pretty, very stylish, had plenty of beaus, went out socially all she wanted to, went in good circles. There is an occasional frustrated person who is taken in by the social invitations and the social opportunities that are given to them, rather definitely and purposefully given to them, by the Communist group, but he couldn't see that that was her case.

I had said to him in the morning, “I don't care whether she's a Communist or not. I think anybody who goes to that meeting is a fool. That's all. Anybody who goes to a meeting like that and gets up a party to go is a fool. I don't suffer fools gladly around the Department of Labor in days like this. It's just bad judgment that she's got. It's no crime to belong to the Communist Party and I don't even know that these people are party members.” This wasn't a party meeting, just something of the young Communist type.

He told me that she couldn't be a Communist and then he said, “But I agree with you that anybody who





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