Communist Activism
He became involved with the Young Communist League of Canada, and then joined the Communist Party of Canada while working in a factory.
Rose was jailed during the 1930s for sedition, and won the hatred of Quebec Premier Maurice Duplessis for writing about the close connections between the Duplessis government and the fascist governments of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. He was a close associate of Dr. Norman Bethune, who served first in Spain during the Spanish Civil War and later in China.
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—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)