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These plans, with the exception qi ) first, will be dealt with in future installments, as wil’ “ y of the Browder- Foster turn-over, and the totally-un. -ted turmol! that the atomic bomb cansed in Communist ranks. ; But Soviet foreign policy, as the key to the present Commun- ‘st Party effort, will call the turn on how peacefully or violently the American comrades go about their “Teconversion.” e * a N NEW YORK, where the bulk of the 75,000 American Com- munists is concentrated, you are told on every hand that the sole purpose of the party in the United States {s to serve Boviet Union foreign policy. Avowed social alms are called mere camou- flage—used, exploited, torted or abandoned as Soviet pe alctates. Tt renee ae eee aren cares oa This is stated plainly by groups which the Communists can hardly condemn as “fascist,” “reactionary” or “im ” their standard terms for people who don't agree with . The trail of the ideologies in New York follows the street guide, by an odd coincidence, and the farther downtown the head- quarters, the more radical the program. The ‘Socialist Workers Party--the Trotzkyites—are farthest downtown in a red brick, three-story walkup at 116 Cuiversity Place. The Communists come next with their green- fronted head- cuarters at 35 E. 12th st. The Social Democratic Federation shares the brownstone “People’s House" on 15th st. The Socialist Party is comiortably ensconced farthest uptown at 303 Fourth aye. Belqw the Trotzkyites are only the anarchists and nihilists, who have neither organization nor headquarters, but who reputedly £0 about in solitary wrath, muttering into their beards. . ILLIAM JCANNON, national secretary of the Socialist Work- W ers Party, explains that it was the decision to become a mere too] of Soviet Union foreign policy that led the Trotzkyites to quit the Communist Party in 1929. “The teaders of the Communist Party are only Stalin's office boys." Cannon says. “They use the internationa working class a5 pawns in dealing with the imperialists.” 8. ALevitas, an officer of the Social Democratic Federation Continued on Page 6. Calum