Word: bolshevik
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...what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems to have in the pigeon holes of its General Staff plans for an offensive war on foreign soil. This is such a reversal of Old Bolshevik tenets that New Bolshevik ''Klim" Voroshilov had to weasel cautiously into it thus: "Any attack on the territory of workers and peasants will be repulsed with all the strength of the armed forces of the Soviet Union through the transfer of military operations into territory attacking the enemy...
...colossal scope of Bolshevik preparation for Peace was shown last week by the fact that although the Soviet Budget carries the burden of Russia's entire national economy, and is loaded with all kinds of Five-Year-Plan economic costs which private capital would carry in other countries, J. Stalin is spending more than one-fifth of the entire Red budget making ready to fight. Germany spent in 1936 seven times as much as in 1934. Russia only tripled her expenditures in the same period but is still ahead of Germany. Together the Bolsheviks and Nazis spent...
...pursuit. Audaciously the skywriter jazzed the municipal airport, disappeared, leaving the army flyers to their humiliation, the populace to speculate on the motive for the deed. Some patriots thought the scribbling pilot was a German agent provocateur sent up to bolster the Nazi thesis that Czechoslovakia is a "Bolshevik outpost." Best explanation: an unreconstructed Austrian Red commemorating Vienna's abortive Socialist-Communist counterrevolution of February...
...speaking Yale Professor Jerome Davis and an earlier Japanese as well as a German correspondent have been noted (TIME, Jan. 8, 1934), but Nikolai Lenin did not die until 1924, Leon Trotsky was not fully mastered and exiled until 1929, and the first correspondent to interview the No. 1 Bolshevik after he reached the plenitude of J. STALIN, DICTATOR, was Eugene Lyons in 1930, followed by Walter Duranty a few days afterward...
Fiction THIS is YOUR DAY-Edward Newhouse-Furman ($2.50). "First novel of American Communist Party life," the pure Red romance of a youthful New York organizer in the Farm Belt, by a 25-year-old "Old Bolshevik" who got his start at 7 as class delegate to a school "soviet" in a Budapest suburb...