Talk:Helen Foster Snow
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[edit] Apologies
This deserves fuller treatment. I will try to return! cwh 05:12, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Findings on Helen Snow as "Party member"
Thanks to this article I read M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History.
Evans has two references to Helen Snow, under her pen name, Nym Wales. On page 113 there is a photo, with no mention of Party membership. On p 350 Evans does indeed say that the Snows were "revealed in Cold War records as agents of Communist interest (Snow as at best an obedient fellow traveler who took instruction from the Communist Party, Wales as an identified Party member). However, the note for this statement, note 7 (p.621), refers to Haldore Hanson, Humane Endeavor p. 37. On that page the only thing Hanson says is "I decided to join a group of professors and journalists in Peip'ing, headed by Edgar Snow and his wife, who were organizing a new political magazine."
Perhaps a footnote reference was out of order. The other references in this section of the Evans book are footnotes 2-6 to the Hanson book, and notes 1 and 8 to the "Tydings hearings," which are not Cold War records.
So unless further evidence comes to light, I suggest 1) that since Evans offers no evidence, the statement "identified Party member" is in fact unsubstantiated 2) that since the Evans book does not discuss the subject of the article, that we should cite it elsewhere, not here.
However, there is a larger question as to the most useful way of indicating to our users what we mean by such terms as "pro-Communist," "agents of Communist interest," "Communist sympathizer," "Communist spy," etc. etc. There were clearly paid and controlled Soviet spies, who should be so named. But general terms as "Communist sympathizer" should be followed by specifics so that readers can make up their own minds. I have tried to do that in the first para and in later sections, but would be pleased to try again if this doesn't work. cwh (talk) 08:25, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] BYU?
Was she an alumnus of BYU? --Eustress (talk) 23:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
