15 Facts About Freda Utley

Freda Utley was introduced to her mother by Edward Aveling, Karl Marx's translator and longtime partner of his daughter, Eleanor.

Freda Utley tried to get CPGB leader Harry Pollitt to intercede with Moscow on behalf of her Russian husband, but Pollitt refused.

Freda Utley received two postcards from Arcadi reporting his five years' sentence to an Arctic Circle prison for alleged association with Trotskyists.

Freda Utley was "rehabilitated" posthumously in 1961 under post-Stalin rehabilitation laws.

In 1938, Freda Utley published two books on Japan's military attacks on China at the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Freda Utley's goal was to make for herself an international reputation and prove her communist credentials to free her husband.

Freda Utley had impressive academic credentials when she came to the US but publishers and the academy closed doors against her.

Freda Utley said only those 'who have never fully committed themselves to the communist cause' can continue to believe in it.

In 1940, Guido Baracchi, a scholar, communist and labor advocate, revealed a letter Freda Utley had written to a friend in 1938:.

Freda Utley began a crusade to name those who "lost China".

In 1948, Reader's Digest posted Freda Utley to, resulting in Freda Utley's next book, The High Cost of Vengeance which criticizes as war crimes Allied occupation policies, including the expulsion of millions of Germans from European nations after World War II and the Morgenthau plan.

Freda Utley accused the United States of torture of German captives, the Allied use of slave labour in France and the Soviet Union and criticized the Nuremberg Trials legal processes.

Freda Utley's book was excoriated by The New York Times but was according to her own publisher praised by Reinhold Niebuhr in The Nation magazine.

In 1970, Freda Utley published the first volume of her autobiography Odyssey of a Liberal which recorded her early experiences in Fabian Society circles, education, marriage, life in the Soviet Union and travels up until 1945.

Freda Utley gave evidence against China expert Owen Lattimore to the Tydings Committee and evidence against alleged "fellow travelers" like Asian scholar JK Fairbank and Red Star Over China author Edgar Snow to other congressional committees.