Dilling, Elizabeth Kirkpatrick, 1894-1966.
The red network : a "who's who" and handbook of radicalism for patriots
/ by Elizabeth Dilling (Mrs. Albert W. Dilling) (Kenilworth, Ill., ; Chicago :
The author, 1935)
In the biographical details supplied on the dust-wrapper, Elizabeth Dilling
describes herself as 'Author, lecturer, world traveller, "bourgeois housewife"'
She visited the Soviet Union in 1931 and "being told boastfully that the
Communist world revolution would start with China and end with the United States
she returned home stirred to study the subject." As a result she began to write
books and articles and toured the US to warn people of the threat the Communists
posed. Her biographical details end with, "Communicant of Protestant
Episcopalian Church", in bold type.
The Red Network begins with a description of how the Communists have
infiltrated American life, and have been particularly successful in influencing
Roosevelt's government towards the socialist policies of the "New Deal". Mrs.
Dilling then provides a detailed directory of front organisations.
