2 JUNE 1950, Page 4

Who is the most famous living American ? You thought

Truman or Eisenhower or even Dean Acheson ? Ridiculous. There could be only one answer, and the Daily Worker gives it—Paul Robeson. The result, I suppose, of living in a little closed backyard with only Communists inside, it till you get blind to the existence of anyone who is just normal. But newspapers need to look over the backyard wall occasionally. The Daily Worker rarely does that, which is perhaps the reason why it has to announce that its circulation is falling and to issue an urgent S.O.S.

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