Unlikely Event Quotes
He was half right. There is no way a leading communist would have been elected to the Chamber of Commerce, but 45 days later Stalin and Hitler signed their infamous pact. American communists who had been castigating Hitler all of a sudden received orders to flip-flop and castigate the Americans and English for their war mongering against Hitler. Many quit the party over the incident but Browder and most of the leadership adjusted their rhetoric, only to have to flip-flop again when the pact fell apart and the Russians needed U. S. and English assistance.
The 21st Amendment, repealing Prohibition after 13 years, was ratified less than a year later.
At the time it was unseemly for a politician to actively campaign for the presidency and the Platonic idea that anyone who wanted the job per se unfit for it was prevalent . Whether he was sincere or practicing good politics is not known.
