Ralph de Toledano

Ralph de Toledano (August 17, 1916 – February 3, 2007) was an American writer in the conservative movement in the United States throughout the second half of the 20th century.

In addition, he joined the Socialist Party of America, becoming youth leader of the avowedly anticommunist "Old Guard" faction led by Louis Waldman.

[1][2][4][7] In 1940, Toledano became editor of the Socialist Party of America's magazine, The New Leader, succeeding James Oneal.

[1][2][4][7] During World War II, Toledano was drafted and became an anti-aircraft gunner before being transferred to the Office of Strategic Services and trained for covert work in Italy.

[1][4][7] In 1946, Toledano helped found Plain Talk with fellow journalist Isaac Don Levine and China Lobby funder Alfred Kohlberg.

[11][12][13][14] By 1946, the magazine focused on exposing Soviet "spy rings," "secret armies," and other communist subversion in the USA.

His second wife, Eunice Godbold, died in 1999[1][2][7] Toledano held forth until the end of his life at the National Press Club.

[4] Toledano and first wife Nora were long-time friends of Guenther Reinhardt, another anti-communist journalist and frequenter of the National Press Club.

Obituaries included: In 1956, literary critic Irving Howe decried Toledano's biography Nixon for its "Cohn-&-Schine prose.

"[21] According to Martin Jay in Cry Havoc "the crackpot claim is actually advanced that the Frankfurt School was a Commie front set up by Willi Muenzenberger.

Toledano was born in Tangier (panorama)
Whittaker Chambers (1948), whom Toledano befriended
Richard Nixon ( NARA ), whom Toledano also befriended
Ralph Nader (far right, at meeting with Sylvia Porter and U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1974) sued Toledano
National Press Building, home of the National Press Club , Toledano's haunt
Louis Armstrong , jazz trumpeter and singer (1953) was a favorite of Toledano
Toledano criticized unions and other allegedly communist-affiliated organizations and people, including Walter Reuther (here, during a strike on May 26, 1937)
Toledano continued to write about music and musicians including Germaine Montero (here, 1946)
Toledano sought to expose communist influence for Human Events , including an Klaus Fuchs (here, in 1933 police photo)
Toledano continued to attack communism in Modern Age by writing on books by anti-communist Rebecca West (here by Madame Yevond)
Toledano continued to attack communism in Modern Age by writing on books by communist-sympathizing Vivian Gornick (here, 2018)
Toledano wrote on cultural and literary topics like writer John O'Hara (here, 1945) for Chronicles
Toledano continued to write about music in the last decade of his life, including about Billie Holiday (here at the Downbeat Jazz Club in February 1947)