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In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>

In fact Mitchell distinguished socialism from [[communism]] only in "[[strategy]] and [[procedure]]," not "essential [[theory]]."<ref>"[T]he difference between socialism and communism.... is not one of object, but of means of attainment of the object; it has to do with strategy and procedure, and not with essential theory." Broadus Mitchell, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=nB5BAAAAIAAJ&pgis=1 A Preface to Economics]'' (Henry Holt & Co., 1932-34), p. 557.</ref>

After student [[Sidney Offit]] wrote an editorial in the Johns Hopkins campus newspaper defending [[Alger Hiss|Hiss]] and [[Owen Lattimore]], castigating students who merely "applauded daintily" for the latter, rather than taking to the streets, Mitchell, wrote Offit, "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting."<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[http://ia310819.us.archive.org/3/items/communistactivit60unit/communistactivit60unit_bw.pdf Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22)</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'"<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref>

After student [[Sidney Offit]] wrote an editorial in the Johns Hopkins campus newspaper defending [[Alger Hiss|Hiss]] and [[Owen Lattimore]], castigating students who merely "applauded daintily" for the latter, rather than taking to the streets, Mitchell, wrote Offit, "adopted me as his radical protégé-in-waiting."<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 71-72</ref> Later serving as a Reserve Officer in Army Intelligence at a time when Communist couriers were infiltrating the US Merchant Marines,<ref>[http://ia310819.us.archive.org/3/items/communistactivit60unit/communistactivit60unit_bw.pdf Communist Activities Among Seamen and on Waterfront Facilities, Part I], Hearings before the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, 86th Cong., 2d Sess. (Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1960), p. 1760 (PDF p. 22). Cf. FBI file: "Communist Infiltration of the American Merchant Marine," July 21, 1955</ref> Offit wrote, "it was my job to interview prospective crewmen for merchant marine ships to be sure no advocates of [[Karl Marx]] were allowed aboard. Somehow or other I always found a reason to pass on these workingmen regardless of their flirtations with the 'forceful overthrow of the United States government.'"<ref>Sidney Offit, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=KLgjrbu0LB8C Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen: A Memoir]'' (Macmillan, 2008) ISBN 0312375220, pp. 13-14</ref>

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