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...army in World War I, but returned to Germany in 1918 to become a charter member of the German Communists' central commit tee, Pieck escaped to the Soviet Union the following year, when the committee's two leaders were slain (said one of them, Rosa Luxemburg: "Pieck was my most faithful, but also my most stupid student"), fled to Russia again before World War II. Coming back with the Red troops, the onetime carpenter was elected to the ceremonial post of President with a bigger vote (99.58%) than Hitler ever...
...Communists early adopted Spartacus, leader of the Roman slave uprising in 73 B.C.. as one of their own. In the turbulent aftermath of World War I, German Communists were known as Spartacists. Among them was Party Leader Rosa Luxemburg, shot for revolutionary activities by the German republican government...
...Belgium-Luxemburg...
B.A.A. officials are currently dickering to add an extra four odd minutes--the shorter the better--to Heptagonal championships, which will be held at the Stadium this spring; the added event would be an invitational mile. Graduate student Josy Barthel, the Luxemburg Olympic champ and winner in the recent K. of C. and B.A.A. meets, would be a certain entrant, and invitations would also go out to milers like Wes Santoo of the University of Kansas, Fred Wilt, and Lon Truex...
...Sorenson, Urvich, Leo (and, behind his back, Billy Goat). At 15, he joined a workers' youth organization, at 17, the German Woodworkers' Union. At 19, he joined the Social Democratic Party, where he got acquainted with Das Kapital. When a renegade bloc of Socialists merged with Rosa Luxemburg's and Karl Liebknecht's Spartakusbund in 1920 to form the German Communist Party, Walter Ulbricht was there as a charter member. He was an enthusiastic organizer and well-crammed encyclopedia of the dictums and ambiguities of his idol, Lenin. But his prime talent was treachery...