Harry Gannes

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Harry Gannes
Born1900
Hull, England
Died3 January 1941
New York City
OccupationJournalist
SpousePearl Roth Gannes (third marriage)
Childrendaughter from second marriage, son (David) from third marriage

Harry Gannes (1900–1941), was a British-born American journalist, foreign editor of the Daily Worker during much of the 1930s, was a communist of national prominence.[1][2]

Biography[edit]

Harry Gannes was one of the founders (in 1922) of the Young Workers League, the predecessor of the Young Communist League, serving briefly as its general secretary.[3] As foreign editor of the Daily Worker he was a mentor to Theodore Draper,[4] with whom he coauthored Spain in Revolt in 1936. His book When China Unites, 1937, based on research and experiences during a trip to China in 1932-33,[3] describes the KuomintangCommunist alliance of the mid-1920s and the confrontations between the two parties from 1927 on. Gannes traveled to China, and later to Europe (1938) using a passport under the name Henry George Jacobs.[2] For this he was indicted for passport fraud in 1939. At almost the same time, he fell ill and was diagnosed with a brain tumor, from which he died on 3 January 1941.

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ "Red Editor Here Dies, Facing U.S. Charges," The New York Times, January 7, 1941
  2. ^ a b "Communist Dies: Federal court asked to drop action against Gannis [sic]" Buffalo Courier Express, 7 January 1941
  3. ^ a b "Harry Gannes Dies," Daily Worker, Jan. 5, 1941
  4. ^ Draper, "Preface" to paperback edition of American Communism and Soviet Russia, pg. xi.

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