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...three stalwart soldiers. There was Kamenev, Acting Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, sitting with his beautiful wife. Side by side sat Krassikov, President of the Supreme Court; Kursky, Commissioner of Justice; Minjiniki Elyava, Head of the Trans-Caucasian Federation; Karl Redek, famed diplomat; another arch-devil, Bela Kun, quondam Red Dictator of Hungary. In the dock a small man, quite bald, about 45, dressed in a cheap double-breasted grey sack suit and a thin black tie. His face was reminiscent of a youthful Napoleon, but "cadaverous and drawn with deep shadows under the eyes...
...Bela Kun dissented: "Savinkov is a bold fellow, who has always carried his life in his hands. But he is a romantic creature, not a Marxist. He has been tracked and threatened a thousand times and has lived ever in an atmosphere of murder and sudden death. Now he is up against it and, like the true romantic, gives us a beautiful story...
...Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela Kun. She is described as "a woman with an overbubbling temperament, always found where the fight is hottest...
Elections of the Chess Club officers were announced last night as follows: president, Adrjen Gambet '25 of Allston; first vice-president, William Bela Pecok'25 of Cleveland, Ohio; second vice-president, Henry Andrew McCashin '25 of Boston; team captain, Kenneth Ormsby Mott-Smith 1L of Schenectady, New York; and secretary-treasurer, Frederic Allen Mulloney '25 of Winthrop. The Executive Committee will be composed of the following: Alfred Henman King 1L and William Pillsburg Locke '27 of White Plains New York, and Dudley Chapin Stone '25 of Chicago...
...Bela Schick, Austrian inventor of the "Schick tests" and the toxin-anti-toxin serum for diphtheria, learned last week that his serum could not be permitted to freeze...