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+ ageless Amelie ys tem ae mm re eo re ee But Nancy Reed's wish to be “a leader in the struggle of against class” was never realized. Instead, she contented herself with sporadic attacks against America, sarcastically comparing con- Beare. af tet oh tee ditions there with those in Russia. Condemning Mrs. Eleanor Roose- velt for a magazine article she vehemently espoused the Marxist alant in « letter signed “Ima Worker.” Her Russian chief, the notorious Michael Borodin of Ogpu, she apparently held in high esteem. Not only did she send him a number of memoranda suggesting improvements In existing techniques but ce ee ae wet (134] 9 THE ComuNIsT TRAIL IN AMERICA Bh Ask Earl if bell send me « copy of his book since I provided some . of the material. How long ago was that? Has he forgotten? And pethaps ee aes he'll write @ word in it? 3 still have = Hist of the stuff I gave him. ar Typical of the attitude of Mary Reed while she was attending Radcliffe is a passage in a letter to an admirer: Before I Jeave this college—there won't be a French Club, a German oe Club, a Spanish Club, etc. There will be an international club. And instead of narrow little cliques that call themselves Socialist clubs, etc., there will be a big club spreading itself out. Not studying the workers in textbooks but going to their meetings, working with them and for them, ing their literature. My frst speech is going to be right in this college. And it {s going to be used to get this benevolent compassion _ stuff out of this place if it takes dynamitel It is the Revolution— Youn Lirrie Resi Gm So touched was Nancy Reed by what she saw in Russia that she wrote the following poem: I lived and loved and I suffered, ’ I made some mistakes that were bad, But I leamed the proportion of my life To that of the mass, And fm giad. For 1 now feel that I can be useful In the fight for the rule of the mass ; And that some day I may be a leader aan . In the struggle of class against class. . on me cee ene en liana