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wee * T WAS sprung from Moscow and the i ““intern in April, 145, i when the crushing defeat of Ger ; }s assured. Jacques Duclos, gencra! secretary of the } iVommunist Party, re- turning from Moscow to Paris at that fuuc, was the chosen ingtru- ment. Writing in the publication Cahiers du Communisme and the points of the hidden, secret Foster letter, Duclos attack Browder for his “revisionism” and for his direction of the American Communist Party. The arrival of the attack in New York caused an unprecedent- ed furor among the rank and file of the Communists, until then unaware of the Foster letter. Browder’s first decision was to sit on the Duclos attack, swait- ing more direct word on the change in policy. But its publication by the New York World Telegram, whose blond, chunky Wolt- man is a nemesis of the Communists, forced his hand. - At that point, Browder threw in the sponge. He printed the Duclos at in the Daily Worker, of which he Was editor, te- gether with an apologetic foreword in which he admitted that the time for » change in policy had come. eee = Ves. Then he called a meeting of the national board to acquaint m with his decision. That was his second unpleasant surprise. ’ “T would have Hked to be there,” one Communist membez, @ slim stenographer in a black sweater and skirt, told me. “Browder walked into the meeting with his brief case under his arm. He was ready to tell the party leaders that the time for a new changg in Hine had come os Weureseure “And what did he find? He found Foster there before Bim and the national board already launched on the new bre” Browder went off in a rage to Monroe, N. Y., to reflect on ‘hi wrongs. Byt the national board calmly named a secretariat héad- ed by Foster and went on with its plans. * * CUING} that time the Communist Party has alirihuted afl af the ¢o-vperative policy to Browder, even thourh Foster. him: introduced the resolution which disbanded the Communist tinged on Page 11, Column 1 : . 3 ry wt i. ays : ee es aot an tee ae