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This deliciously backhanded phrase--an allusion to Czechoslovakia's "socialism with a human face," which was crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968--conveyed three corrosive messages: that conservatism lacked compassion to begin with, that conservatives couldn't tolerate compassion, and that for this reason, conservatism, like socialism, was doomed.
cat's paw to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an allusion to the story of a monkey that made use of a cat's paw to scratch a roasted chestnut out of the fire.
It is perhaps unfair to review the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Phrase & Allusion alongside the Brewer's Twentieth Century: despite the similarity of the titles, the former is a slighter work; also, it consists largely of quotations and the titles of books, plays, films, and other written works traceable to them (and vice versa).
The contrast is strong enough to sustain the allusion to Julia Ward Howe's Battle Hymn (bypassing Steinbeck, of course) when Quinn speaks of the narrative trampling over the now familiar gripes of Roth.
P.S.: A personal aside: Your allusion to Earl Browder fell wide of the polemical mark with me, because I actually lived next door to Earl Browder as a child.