Meaning of party-membership card | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

Examples

“The Dies Committee votes a contempt citation against James H. Dolsen, Pittsburgh Communist, after he refuses to give the true name of a Communist who used the name “Franklin D. Roosevelt” on his party-membership card.”

“The two Communists—whom Boswell compelled to show their party-membership cards to prove they weren’t impostors—were John F. Norman, a writer on the staff of the Daily Worker, 35 East Twelfth Street, New York City, and Louis Joel, Bergen County organizer for the party.”

“At first, I thought of writing the story as a roman à clef: perhaps Wilson could be “Henry Worthington”, the name Peter Wright claims he was given in his MI5 file. This, though, would make the story seem more fictional than it is. Deciding to use names from real party-membership cards and security passes throughout the book, I came to the conclusion that the central problem in fiction about politics is the baptism of the characters.”

“It is important to note that while all steelworkers were automatically made Communist Party members regardless of their wishes, only a few were really communist. In those years, refusal of a party-membership card was very hazardous to one’s health.”

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