Series IV. Writings
Scope and Content Note
This series is arranged alphabetically, and the bulk of it is from 1960-83. It comprises somewhat more than half of the collection and contains typescripts of radio speeches given on KSAN, journalism dispatches, newspaper column typescripts and clippings, press telegrams from Moscow, photocopies of his articles in Political Affairs, notebooks, typescripts for numerous unpublished and published articles and for several pamphlets and for papers given at conferences sponsored by World Marxist Reviewand other communist fora. Pittman's writings were largely concerned with the problems and struggles of African Americans and of people of color worldwide, the strategy and tactics of the communist movement, and with its relationship to the capitalist powers and the developing countries.
Africa Against the Axis, ca.1943, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Africa Calling: Isolate the Racists, 1973, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Aid to Africa" - Incomplete, undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 58 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"American Communists" - Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1961, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"American Motion Pictures - A Weapon of Imperialism", 1947, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Banning Nuclear War Propaganda", 1984, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Behind the Iron Curtain" - 4 Part Series ( The Daily Workerand People's World), 1946, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Book Reviews, 1973-1977, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Building the Communist Press", 1975, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Capitalism USA, As Catholic Bishops See It", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 65 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Capitalist Integration in the Western Hemisphere", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 66 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Colloquium - Julius Lips Institute, Karl Marx University, Berlin, 1977, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 67 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Color Blindness - A Ploy to Derail Affirmative Action" (for Black Liberation Journal), 1982, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 68 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Combating Crisis Consequences", 1984, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 69 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Combating Effects of the Worst Crisis", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 70 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Coming Battle for a Military Détente", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 71 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Communists by the Minute", 1950, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 72 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Concerning Native Americans and Peoples from the Caribbean and Central American Areas", undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 73 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conferences and Symposia (held in the) USSR - Pittman typescripts, 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 74 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conferences and Symposia ( World Marxist Review) - Pittman typescripts, 1974-1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 75 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Conferences and Symposia, Miscellaneous ( WMR?) - Pittman typescripts, 1974-1976, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 76 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The C.P.U.S.A. and U.S. Public Opinion", 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 77 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"C.P.U.S.A: Origins and Sources of the C.P.U.S.A.", 1979, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 78 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The C.P.U.S.A's 65 Year Fight for Peace", 1984, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 79 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Daily Review of Soviet Press, 1961, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 80 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Daily Workerand Freedom of the Press" , 1952, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 81 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Daily World, Content of - (For Party Affairs) , undated, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 82 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Daily World, In the Struggle for the Masses" , 1974, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 83 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Davis, Angela" - Untitled ts, 1975, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 84 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"DeGaulle and U.S., Mandate System, Wallace's View", 1944, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Economic Planning" (Note cards and ts), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Equality for Afro-Americans: The Communist View" (Drafts), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Equality of Nations - Notes on", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Existing Socialism: Its Meaning for the USA", 1979, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Fictional Writings Notebook, ca.1963, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Focus on Racism" - (3 ts), 1973, inclusive
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"For Peace, Jobs, and Equality", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"From Cradle of Bourgeois Freedom to State Monopoly Capitalism", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ganbatte- Book Review , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
German Communist Party Conference (Bonn), Reports from, 1976, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Government by the People" (60th Anniversary of Russian Revolution), 1973, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Great October Revolution and the United States of America" (For the International Conference of World Marxist Review), 1977, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Grim Future for Native Americans", 1981, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"How People's Democracies Emerged", 1985, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"How Polish Government is Liquidating Bigotry", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"How Socialist States Help Africa and Why" ts - New Quarterly, 1960, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Ideology of U.S. Messianism", undated, inclusive
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"Imperialism's Main War Party - Then and Now", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"An Impression of John Hope" (President, Morehouse College), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Impressions of Socialist Korea", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Inevitability of War in the Capitalist World", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Information for Changing the World", 1981, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Inter-American Relations and the Export of Capital", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Jewish-Negro Relations", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journalism Dispatches, 1940s
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Journalism Dispatches, 1942, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journalism Dispatches ( Daily Worker), 1945, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journalism Dispatches ( Daily Worker, People's World, Chicago Defender), 1946, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journalism Dispatches ( Daily Worker, People's World, Chicago Defender), 1947, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Journalism Dispatches, 1948, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Ku Klux Klan" by John Badger (aka John Pittman), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Logic of a Life" ( Soviet Foreign Literature), 1961, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lovejoy, E.P. - "N.S. Khrushchev's Visit Opens Way to a Significant Improvement in US - USSR Relations", 1959, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Mandate System and World Peace" (Germany/Africa), 1936, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxist - Leninist Party in the Soviet Union", 1976, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Marxist Philosophy", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"May Day Centenary", undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"May First: Its Origin and Significance", 1978, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Miscellaneous Writings, undated, inclusive
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"Morehouse College Football Dope for 1925", 1925, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Multi-National State Development", 1982, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Nate Shaw: Man of the Heroic Mold (An Anatomy of the Survivals of Slavery: a Damning Indictment of Racism)", 1976, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"National Issues Before Congress Now in Session" - ( The Spokesman) By John Pierpont (aka John Pittman), 1937, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"National Questions in the USA in the 1970s", 1979, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns (Clippings and Typescripts) Most by Robert Badger, undated , 1942-1945, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns- The Daily Worker(Clippings), 1950, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns (Typescripts), undated , 1946-1947, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns- The Daily Worker(Clippings) "Of Things to Come", 1949-1953, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns (Typescripts and Clippings), 1970-1980, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: 50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Newspaper Columns (Typescripts and Clippings), 1981, inclusive
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Newspaper Columns (Typescripts and Clippings), 1982-1983, inclusive
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North Korea, Trip to, 1969, inclusive
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Notebooks (14), ca.1931 , ca.1968-1970s, inclusive
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Notebooks: International Conference on the October Revolution and the Contemporary Scene, 1977, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Notebooks on Race (4), undated, inclusive
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"Oriental Labor in California" (Bibliography), undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Party Theoretical Work: Basis of Political and Ideological Struggle", undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Peaceful Coexistence" Book Review, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Permanent Commissions of the Soviets", 1978, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Pittman, Margrit, Writings re: Soviet Union, 1959-1962, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Playwriting, Notes on, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Point Four - New Name for the Old Imperialism", 1950, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Affairs- Articles (ts) , 1973 , 1983, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Affairs- articles (photocopies) , 1958-1985, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 14A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Political Affairs- Margrit Pittman articles (photocopies) , 1968-1987, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 14B (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press Telegrams from Moscow, undated, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press Telegrams from Moscow, 1959, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Press Telegrams from Moscow, Jan 1960-Jun 1960
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Press Telegrams from Moscow, Jul 1960-Dec 1960
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Press Telegrams from Moscow, Jan 1961-Jun 1961
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Press Telegrams from Moscow, Jul 1961-Dec 1961
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Press Telegrams from Moscow, 1962, inclusive
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"Problem of the Subjective Lag", 1979, inclusive
Box: 5, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Problems of an Unemployed American", ca.1961, inclusive
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"Proletarian Internationalism and the Revolutionary Process", undated, inclusive
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"Race and the Pacific", 1942, inclusive
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"Racism and War" (Parts I And II.), 1976, inclusive
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"Racism, Class Roots of", 1976, inclusive
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"Racism, Current Problems of the Struggle Against", undated, inclusive
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"Racism: The Death Sentence for/A Death Sentence for/Is Sentenced to Death", 1970s, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radio Broadcasts: KSAN (San Francisco), 1941, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Radio Broadcasts: KSAN (San Francisco), 1942, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 8A (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Readings from the Marxist - Leninist Classics", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Red Heels", 1925, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Report on the Soviet Theory and Practice of Peaceful Coexistence", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Robeson and the Soviet People" ( New World Review), 1961, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Rout of the Fascist Axis Bloc and the USA", 1985, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Scientific and Technological Progress and the Position of the Working Class in Capitalist Countries", 1986, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Similarities, Differences", 1979, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Sixty Years of the Soviet Multinational State" ( The New World Review), 1982, inclusive
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"Smog - How Socialism Deals with it", 1959, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Socialism and Communism - Theory and Practice", 1981, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Socialist Integration", 1979, inclusive
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"Socialist Poland's Heroic Example", 1986, inclusive
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"Some Aspects of the Life and Work of Karl Marx of Particular Significance to the People of the USA", 1978, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Some Features of the Present Stage of the General Crisis of Capitalism in the USA", 1975, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Soviet Agriculture, Corrections of Article on, 1975, inclusive
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"Soviet Armenia and the Forbidden Truth", 1961, inclusive
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"Soviet Foreign Policy", 1941, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Soviet Jazz: Another Challenge" ( Mainstream), 1961, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Soviet Path to Peace, undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
The Soviet Path to Peace- Two Reviews of (Hy Lumer and Irene Paull) , undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Struggle for Military Détente", 1977, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The Struggle in the USA for the Second Front", 1975, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Third World Non-Socialist Countries Winning Political Independence and Statehood During and After World War II" (List), undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Three Levels of Peace Activity in the USA", 1930s, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Towards a United, Independent, Sovereign Ireland", 1979, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Trilateralism, US Imperialism's New Scenario", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Two Paths for America", 1953, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Two Systems Competition", 1974, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The United Nations and the Struggle for Détente", 1974, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Unpublished Writings, undated , 1967, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "The Going in France is Tough, but not so Tough as Goebbels…", ca.1944-1945, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "Hard, Bitter Fighting Awaits our European Invasion Armies…", ca.1943-1944, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Typescript - "We Live in an Epoch of World Revolution…", ca.1930s, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Untitled Writings, undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Upturn in US Labor's Internationalism", 1980s, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"US Communists in the Struggle Against Unemployment", 1983, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"US Constitution: A Record of Unfulfilled Promises", ca.1987, inclusive
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"USSR, An Introduction to Socialist Democracy in the", 1977, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"US Supreme Court and American Working Class Movement", 1931, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"US Workers and Latin America", 1980s, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"US Worker's Struggle", 1985, inclusive
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"US Youth and the Nuclear War Threat", 1985, inclusive
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"Victory and National Liberation", 1975, inclusive
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"Victory and National Liberation: An Addendum" ( New World Review), 1975, inclusive
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"The Victory of Poland's Trade Unions", 1986, inclusive
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"Victory the Hard Way", 1942, inclusive
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"The View from Soviet Estonia" ( Mainstream), 1961, inclusive
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"Watergate and After", 1974, inclusive
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"Watergate and Détente", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 57 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"What is America to Me?", undated, inclusive
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"What the CIA, FBI Exposés Disclose", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 59 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"Why New Economic and Information Orders?", 1985, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 60 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
World Marxist Review/ Prague - Misc. Pittman Typescripts , 1975-1979, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 61 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"World Politics and Global Problems", undated, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 62 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"The World This Week - GOP Platform, China's Celebration, South African Trends", 1944, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 63 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"World War II" [re: National Question, Colonial Issues], ca.1942-1944, inclusive
Box: 6, Folder: 64 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
"A Year Long Emergency for the CPUSA", 1984, inclusive
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"Zionism, The True Face of", 1976, inclusive
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