Where Are They Now - 1937

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Where Are They Now? 1937

Albert Einstein - The famed theoretical physicist lives very comfortably at his new teaching position at the Institute of Advanced Study at University of America, Princeton, and is even the chair of the Princeton chapter of the Workers’ Party.

Aldous Huxley- The writer of Brave New World has taken up residence in Southern California, studying under Swami Prabhavananda, and enjoying the company of Jiddu Krishnamurti and even former General Secretary Upton Sinclair, who occasionally visits the Swami now that he has left office and discusses “Mental Radio” and parapsychology with Huxley’s friend Gerald Heard.

Alexander Dubcek - Raised in an Esperanto commune in Soviet Kyrgyzstan, the 16 year old has been living with his father on a similar Interhelpo commune in Nevada.

Amelia Earhart - Ensign Amelia Earhart was part of the first class of pilots inducted into the WFRAAF female fighter squadron. She trains younger pilots and conducts test flights.

Andrew Mellon - Already in deep trouble for his significant role in the Hoover administration’s disastrous handling of the Depression, he was reassigned to become Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and remained in the United Kingdom when a Reds victory was assured. He was entangled in attempts to retrieve what was left of his business empire when he died in his London apartment.

Audrey Hepburn - Audrey Ruston has recently moved to England with her mother, after her father left their family to further the cause of fascism in the United Kingdom.

Aung San - A law student at Rangoon University, he has taken to reading the works of Karl Marx and Daniel DeLeon and becoming involved in anti-British activities.

Ayn Rand - Bitter and disillusioned by the loss of her beloved America to the scourge of Communism, she now pens increasingly unhinged tracts against Communism, in the vein of her biggest hit We the Living. Currently living in Ontario, Canada.

Bertolt Brecht- Having fled the Nazi regime in 1933, soon after Hitler came to power, he and his collective reestablished themselves in Los Angeles, working on plays and films.

Bertrand Russell - Russell visited the UASR as part of the same delegation of British socialists as George Orwell, observing last year’s elections. His account of the events, Reflections on America , shows his greater enthusiasm for American socialism than the Soviet mode.

Boris Pasternak - Held up by the American literati as a modern genius since his writings and poems were published in socialist journals like Inkwell , he had since moved to New York to avoid the fate of his literary comrades under Stalin, where he mingles with a variety of people associated with culture and politics.

B. Traven - The reclusive author played coy with journalists trying to reveal his identity in the lead up to the release of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre film. Still under his famous pseudonym, he now works on Hollywood screenplays, including the story of the Galileo trial with Bertolt Brecht.

Buenaventura Durruti - The prominent anarchist is very, very grateful for incoming American-Soviet support for the CNT-FAI, as he and others continue the battle against the Nationalists.

Cab Calloway - Formerly a regular at the Cotton Club in Harlem, Cab Calloway and his orchestra left Harlem after its destruction and moved his operations to New Afrika, and particular, the Lincoln Film Collective in Columbia, where he scores and stars in films starring primarily Africans. That said, his gambling problems and subsequent association with Bumpy Johnson (New Afrika lieutenant of Harlem crime lord Stephanie St. Clair) has been stewing in the rumor mill for months.

Charles Addams - The artist recently started at the New Yorker as their newest cartoonist. He often shows stylized, sometimes macabre versions of mundane settings (causing a stir for some readers, who want a more inspirational style).

Charles Luciano - In the early morning of August 2nd, Charles “Lucky” Luciano was executed by firing squad on Rikers Island, despite attempting an escape that morning. The Five Families in Havana drink a toast in his honor, and a vigil is held in his hometown of Lercara Friddi in Sicily.

Che Guevara - 9 year old Ernesto Guevara shows great interest in many academic pursuits, including mathematics, science, literature, history, and archaeology.

Prince Chichibu - The shadow leader of Imperial Japan has been renovating the political system using An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan as a guideline. With his brother being a shut-in invalid, the Prince is unleashing his rage and pain upon the world that took everything from him. Soon all will taste the flames…

Curtis LeMay - Following his participation on the Red side of the Civil War, LeMay has seen rapid advancement in the now Workers’ and Farmers’ Revolutionary Army Air Force, now holding the rank of Commander, and commanding officer of the 4th Tactical Bomber Regiment.

David Ben Gurion - The leader of Mapai and the Jewish Agency has come out against the Peel Commission to keep Palestine as is, though this is controversial amongst some of his peers.

Duke Ellington - Pushing the artform of Jazz through his compositions and performances since the 20’s, he is regarded as one of the leading figures behind the new “Workers’ Jazz”, that is now very popular amongst American youth and music critics. He and his orchestra (patronized by the Foreign Secretariat) are currently doing a sell-out tour with other prominent Jazz musicians in the Soviet Union, starting at the Leningrad Conservatory.

Edsel Ford - Not sharing his father’s Nazi proclivity, Edsel took his shares and reformed the Ford Motor Company in Calgary. He mainly focused on the development of luxury Lincolns and Mercuries (though the exile American government has awarded him a contract to build a new Ford for the “True American”), as well as significant charity work through the Ford Foundation.

Erich Maria Remarque - Despised for his stark, bleak All Quiet on the Western Front , Remarque has relocated to Switzerland for the time being.

Ernest Hemingway - The writer has decided to use his writing talents to help support the Spanish Republicans, becoming a correspondent and joining a WFRA Signal Corps. film crew as they cover the Eugene Debs Brigade and other volunteers.

Ezra Pound - The poet moved from his Italian exile to Cuba to show his wholehearted support for MacArthur and his brand of fascism. He now hosts a radio show, where he encourages support for the Fascist struggle in Spain.

Fidel Castro - Due to his misbehavior, the 11 year old has been sent to the Jesuit Dolores School.

Fiorello LaGuardia - LaGuardia’s support for Morris Hilquit during the Bienno Rosso earned him respect and support from the Workers’ Party, despite being a Republican at the time. Now a card carrying member of WCPA, he serves on the Presidium of the Metropolis ASR and serves as its public face.

Floyd Olson - Despite recovering from surgery, Olson continues to be a major power player in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, working tirelessly behind the scenes to help the Roosevelt-LaFollette ticket in last year’s election. Despite their massive loss, he still commands influence within DeLeon-Debs.

Francisco Franco - Serving under José Sanjurjo, along with Emilio Mola, Franco played a key part in some of the key victories on the Nationalist side, including the Asturias campaign. In spite of his successes, Franco is starting to chafe under what he’s starting to believe is Sanjurjo’s increasingly poor decision making.

Frank Capra - Francesco Capra became so embittered by his experience in the Great War, that he was very receptive to the socialist recruiter in his unit. He renounced his Catholic faith, and, upon entering the film industry in the 1920’s, became a leading Communist filmmaker. He is currently making a film about the rise of a party cadre.

Frank Sinatra - The Hoboken singer has gotten traction through his appearances on local radio and with various jazz groups, garnering fame for his smooth, deep voice and embrace of “Workers’ Jazz” .

Frank Whittle - Air Commodore Frank Whittle, having received extra funding in the wake of the successful test of the W.1 jet engine, is working under intense pressure to get a production version, the W.2, into production. This pressure, combined with the increased militarization following the wave of revolutions from 1933-1935, only serves to push Whittle closer and closer to a meltdown.

Fred Rogers - Owing to his father’s bourgeois past and his weight, nine year old Fred Rogers is bullied by the other children in his small Pennsylvania town. He finds comfort in various creative ventures.

Fritz Lang - While not much of a socialist, the advent of Nazism and the rise of anti-semitism forced Lang to flee his home, accepting an offer from William Fox to come to the United Republics. He has since directed films like Public Safety and The Nat Turner Story.

George Orwell - Visited America in 1936 with a delegation of various British socialists, representing the then-Independent Labour Party. He is currently working on a travelogue detailing his experience, tentatively titled “Homage to New York”.

Gertrude Chandler Warner - The author and schoolteacher has largely been unaffected by the events of the past 4 years, instead keeping up her beloved Boxcar Children series.

Gladys Bentley - The openly sapphic musician, a hero in the Uranian community, continues to have a wildly popular show on Broadway, earning praise from Paul Robeson and Langston Hughes, among others.

Hank Williams - 14 year old Hiram Williams displayed his skills as a singer and guitarist at a local Prolekult-sponsored music festival in Alabama, receiving acclaim.

Hannah Arendt - From her Parisian exile, she works vigorously on behalf of Zionist causes and refugees.

Henry Jones, Jr.- The archeologist recently got home from an incursion in Egypt. He was reported to have left the Foreign Secretariat building angry, mumbling something about a gold chest he had retrieved from German archeologists.

Henry Kissinger - 14 year old Heinz Kissinger recently arrived with his family to America as part of the refugee visa program. Now resettled in New York, he is to start school soon.

Harold Lloyd - Currently residing in London after an impromptu family vacation to Europe prompted by Thomas’ election in 1932 turned into a more permanent self-imposed exile with the Reds’ victory in the Civil War. He has produced and starred in several films since, but with less success than his heyday in the silent era.

Howard Hughes - The former Hollywood producer now has a fairly lucrative airplane business in the United Kingdom, mostly helping with racers and commercial aircraft. He has made headlines flying from Paris to Montreal, and surviving a crash in Ireland.

Ho Chi Minh - Nguyễn Ái Quốc is currently a student at the Institute of Scientific Socialism in DeLeon City, refining his Marxist training and political philosophy, as well as doing work for Comintern on occasion.

H.P. Lovecraft - With a better support system, better payment from Speculative Worlds (as opposed to the pre-Revolution rags), and a good relationship with his wife, Lovecraft has mellowed out significantly from his arch-conservatism, even noting to friends his admiration of the new system (though he still has… issues to sort out.) He has recently written the well-received At the Mountains of Madness.

Humphrey Bogart - After returning home from service, “Bogie” did some odd jobs and some acting in theater and short film, before finding his calling in the Red Guards, fighting against the KKK in the South. As a result of that and his later Civil War service, he was inducted into the MDSS. He now works as an agent for Section 1 in Paris.

Ian Fleming - The 29 year old has been working as a stockbroker for 4 years. He’s not particularly good at it.

Jack Kirby - Jacob Kurtzberg was one of the young Red Army auxiliary covered in the book The Boy Commandos of Brooklyn ( with photos from fellow Boy Commando Leon Klinghoffer). He recently started doing comic strips feature for Syndicated Features under Will Eisner and Jerry Iger.

Jack Northup- The former Douglas and Lockheed engineer now has a cushy job as a designer and technocrat at the Aviation Secretariat.

Jackie Robinson - A four letter athlete in high school (Rugby, Baseball, Basketball, and Track), when not undergoing military training or political education, he continues to play baseball as part of his Public Service unit. He also vigorously follows St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Satchel Page on the radio.

Jacqueline Bouvier - After the death of her parents in the Civil War, she and her sister Caroline Lee have been living in the East Hampton Children’s Creche on Long Island.

Jawharlal Nehru - The new President of the Indian National Congress has to navigate both the rising Dominion movement and Comintern influenced socialist currents within his own organization as he and the British continue negotiations.

JD Salinger- Jerome Salinger is a sophomore specializing in special education at Metropolis University (formerly New York University)

Jimmy Hoffa - Following his service in the Red Army during the Revolution, Hoffa’s own political star has risen since organizing the Teamsters strikes in Detroit during the Revolt of Cadres. He was one of the many new anti-corruption politicians elected in the aftermath.

Joe Kennedy Jr - SS-Standartenfuehrer Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. is the main Nazi military advisor for the George Washington Legion, a group of Fascist-sympathetic American volunteers in Spain. He also fights with them against the Republican forces.

John Kennedy - Now under the nom de guerre “Sean Cinneide”, the young man is currently studying at West Point, with the promise of an WFRA commission upon completion of his studies. Veteran of the New England Red Guards, served as a courier during the Civil War.

John J. Pershing - Pershing refused his protegé MacArthur’s invitation into the military junta, though he did not actively support either side of the Civil War. In the meantime, he was allowed to retain his job as Commissioner of Major League Baseball, and is currently dealing with the integration of Minor and Dynamo Leagues into the MLB structure.

Jorge Luis Borges - The Argentine writer and academic has gotten a minor following in Latin America for his surrealist work. He has also struck up a correspondence with Lovecraft, thoroughly impressed with some of his translated work.

J. R. R. Tolkien - The author, professor, and Great War veteran had just released his story, The Hobbit, when he was approached by the British Foreign Office to become a codebreaker in the event of a war, to which he would accept, before ultimately being rejected for the role. He would still work as a professor in Pembroke College, a position he had held since 1925.

Juan Perón - The Argentine Army Major is a military attache at the embassy in Mexico City. He’s also being considered for a Comintern Latin American army to combat a potential war with the Integralists.

Kenji Miyamoto - He was arrested by Japanese authorities in 1933 under false charges of planning to murder a police officer, and is currently serving a life sentence for it. In spite of that, he is still very much involved with the Japanese Communist Party.

Kim Tu-Bong - Best known for his work on MalMoole, the first Korean Dictionary, Tu-Bong and several others were forced to flee to China in 1919, where he was exposed to and later embraced Communism. Currently the head of the Korean Government in exile and the department of education, and a teacher of both Korean history and the Korean Language

Kita Ikki - Having miraculously survived the Showa Restoration and evacuated to Hawaii, the ideologue has been meeting with the GEACPC as the representative of the Japanese Exiles. He is also working on a new treatise, “Pan-Asianism and Refined Socialism.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder - The children’s writer behind the fairly popular autobiographical Pioneer Girl series is awaiting trial after her arrest earlier in the year. It had emerged that she had been in contact with her daughter Rose Wilder Lane, a “Public Enemy” wanted for her work as a MacArthur sympathetic journalist and propagandist, and that she and Rose had been using her Rocky Ridge house to hide members of the Sons of Liberty. Her refusal to cooperate will incur a larger sentence.

Lazar Kaganovich - He was appointed as the Narkom(minister) of Heavy Industry and the Ministry of Communications, leading the reconstruction of Moscow and creation of the Moscow Metro. His relationship with his brother, Mikhail, is strained, mostly due to Lazar threatening to have him expelled for incompetence, among other things.

Leon Trotsky - In what can be described only as an attempt to live down to every slur shot at him by the Stalinists, Trotsky is currently in the middle of a torrid affair with his close comrade James P. Cannon’s wife. When he is not biting the hand that feeds him, he is a common figure in the New York journalist scene.

Ludwig von Mises - Currently teaching in Geneva, Switzerland, and continuing to refine his economic calculation argument against socialism.

Luis Taruc - This political organizer for the suppressed Workers’ and Peasants’ Party of the Philippines barely came unnoticed in the mass arrests following the abortive Red February Uprising of 1933. More a Christian Socialist than a Communist, for now he associates himself with the local Catholic Worker movement. He is currently protesting the Anglo-Japanese formation of the Commonwealth.

Lyndon Baines Johnson - Currently a high school politics teacher, and delegate to the Congress of Soviets of the Texas Federative Soviet Socialist Republic. His passion for education has caused him to consider running for a seat on the Texas Central Executive Council at the next session.

Lyuh Woon-hyung - With almost all major Korean left-wing movements exterminated in the crackdown since the Showa Restoration, Lyuh remains the sole survivor of a potent independence movement existing in Colonial Chosun. He has been keeping a low profile, while still maintaining an underground organization which is preparing for the time Chosun can be liberated and restored.

Malcolm Little - A junior high school student in Lansing, Michigan, he has been described by his teachers as one of the most brilliant students in his class. His father, an elected shop steward for Packard, has been encouraging his son to excel at academics.

Manuel L. Quezon - Currently serving as the Philippine Commonwealth’s first president. Balancing British, Japanese and the national interest, he is pursuing a drive for Catholic-inspired progressive policy in part to mete out any radical ferment. This year his administration established women’s suffrage.

Mao Zedong - Having been expelled from the Communist Party of China, Mao turned his focus to writing, especially poetry. On a suggestion from a friend, he is compiling his poems into a book.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - 8 year old Michael King, Jr. lives with his widowed mother and two siblings in Atlanta, Georgia, after his father’s murder by Klansmen during the revolution.

Maxim Litvinov - Despite somewhat increasing tensions between the USSR and UASR, the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs continues to work with his American counterpart on building up American defenses and to combat the League of Nations’ attempts to stymie involvement in Spain.

Mikhail Bulgakov - Deeply unsatisfied with the censorship he experienced in the Soviet Union, he emigrated to the UASR upon normalization of relations, and has produced acclaimed works for the stage, helped by directors like Elia Kazan and Orson Welles.

Milton Friedman - Currently a junior economist working in the Central Directorate of the State Planning Commission, he has begun work on an economics dissertation after being inspired by reading Oskar Lange’s groundbreaking On the Economic Theory of Socialism (published by his alum, the University of Chicago).

Mohendas Gandhi - Gandhi resists the direct action approach of the Comintern-influenced socialists and the acquiescence of the Dominion movement. Instead he continues advocating non-violence, and even implored the United Republics to give clemency to various political prisoners.

Nelson Mandela - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is currently attending the Healdtown Methodist college in Fort Beaufort, and has developed a reputation in the boxing scene as a potential rising star. While primarily focusing on his education and emerging sporting career, he has taken an interest in recent events in America, particularly the emergence of the New African autonomous republic, in spite of his Anglophilic leanings.

Norma Jeane Baker - This precocious ten year old orphan is currently living in the Workers’ Communist Party’s Children’s Crèche in the Los Angeles Commune

Norodom Sihanouk - The young prince has been sent to Saigon to attend boarding school.

Oleg Losev - Eager to continue his research into radio and semiconductors, Oleg Losev has signed on with a Bell Labs scientific exchange program. He is hoping that with the greater resources available to American scientists, he will be able to resume his exploration of solid-state crystodyne amplification…

Paul Robeson - Since his turn in Hammerstein and Kern’s Show Boat , he has become one of the biggest stars of the period, both as an actor and singer. He is also heavily involved in politics, including organizing black voters within the film industry, and recording new anthems on behalf of the Culture Secretariat. He has also expressed interest in running himself.

Pavel Sukhoi- The Belarusian aircraft designer, who had already worked on designs like the TB-1 and TB-3 heavy bombers, is currently in the US as part of a pan-Comintern collaboration on military aviation. One of the results of this would include the Su-2 ground attack plane.

Puyi - The one time Emperor of China mainly serves out his duty as the Kangde Emperor of the Manchukuo, a puppet state to the Japanese. His biggest public appearance this year was his brother’s wedding in Tokyo.

Ralph Miliband - 13 year old Adolphe Miliband currently lives with his parents and sister in the working class community of Saint-Gilles, though his father is already making plans to take the family and flee to America in the event of a Nazi invasion of Belgium.

Ramon Magsaysay - Currently serving as a clerk and mechanic in Manila, he is receptive to the Anti-Imperialist rhetoric of the left-nationalist Benigno Ramos. He is currently expecting his third child with his wife Luz.

Raymond Chandler - The 49 year old writer is being called the next Dashiell Hammett for his cynical, heavily intellectual mystery stories, though without much of Hammett’s political stances.

Richard Nixon- Served in the WFRA during the Civil War, and fought in the Battle of Chicago and Mississippi Campaign. Has since started completed Air Force training, where he is serving as a reserve officer.

Roald Dahl - The 21 year old Cardiff native is occasionally called from his posh Royal Dutch Shell job in Kenya to check up on Shell’s new investments in Libya

Ronald Reagan - “Smooth-Talkin’ Ronnie”, a popular fixture in Midwestern radio, parlayed his success narrating the World Series to becoming leading rugby correspondent for PBS-3

Rosa Luxemburg - Surviving the unsuccessful German Revolution of 1918-19, she would later go on to reject the increasingly orthodox Marxist-Leninist line of the KPD, breaking with the party entirely along with many other anti-Stalinists and joining the KAPD in 1925. After a few years of relatively limited political activity during the late 1920s, she would be forced to flee Germany in 1933 as the Nazis rose to power. After first leaving for France, she would then settle in New York City following the Red victory in the Second American Civil War, where she is currently a prominent figure among the community of left-wing German exiles.

Subhas Chandra Bose - Bose was highly impressed by the success of American socialism during his visit, but frustrated by the lack of a firm commitment by the Foreign Secretariat to supporting Indian independence. He is next looking towards Soviet support.

Sukarno - Along with around other 1.300 political prisoners, he was interned at the Boven Digoel concentration camp after the failed insurrection. The harsh environment took a toll on him, and he was fatally ill.

Tenzin Gyatso - Two year old Lhamo Thondup has been recognized as the tulku of the Dalai Lama. The Tibetan government, wary of the ongoing Chinese Civil War, decided to keep the news low key for the time being.

Theodore Roosevelt - The former Vice-President of the USA and some-time Republican politician is now a latter day communist and enthusiastic supporter of the May Revolution. He has found an open audience for his nature conservation proposals within the Workers’ Party, particularly with Ag Secretary Henry Wallace, and the old politician has found a second wind in his political career.

Tommy Douglas - The Canadian emigré is currently an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago

Walter Chrysler - Chrysler attempted to pacify the strikes in his factories at the beginning of the Civil War by hiring Pinkertons to repress them. This backfired, as the fighting became violent. Finally, a stray explosive from a Pinkerton landed near Chrysler while he was surveying a battle at one of the plants, and he later died at a White hospital. His name still adorns the collectives formed from his company (though the Chrysler Building was renamed “The Metropolis Building”)

Walter Gropius - Having emigrated to America in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power, Gropius continues to influence architecture, especially within the UASR West Coast. His proposal for the capitol building in Debs D.C would eventually be rejected in favor of Le Corbusier’s design.

Walter Reuther - Since his prominent role during the Detroit strikes, Reuther has become a prominent figure in Michigan union politics, representing the workers interests for the Left Communist Internationalist Fraction.

William Faulkner - After a particularly harsh experience during his service in the First World War, he became acclaimed for his darkly comedic Southern gothic novels, even as his drinking slowly got worse. Eventually, wandering completely drunk from a safe house he and others were occupying during the Civil War, he was unable to see an errant shell come his way. Inkwell is currently working on publishing his last works posthumously.

William Randolph Hearst - The former vice president may have his issues with MacArthur, but ultimately, he was the last one to stand up for American values. Thus, from his new Cuban headquarters, he wholeheartedly supports all action from the Cuban government.

Woody Guthrie - Woodrow “Woody” Guthrie fought for the Red Army during the Civil War, participating in revolutionary offensives in his native Oklahoma. Since the conclusion of the War, he has found a new career as a journalist, travelling and documenting the course of the American revolutionary project in the rural West. His experiences touring America have given him artistic inspiration for his hobby of music and songwriting. *[WPA]: Works Progress Administration *[NBI]: National Bureau of Investigation