Word: bolshevik
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...Republicans granted William Lemke, who ran for President on the Union Party ticket, and his colleague from North Dakota, Usher Burdick, committee places as Republicans but deprived them of seniority. One Republican explained the reason to Mr. Burdick: When the Republicans return to power they do not want "a Bolshevik for chairman of a committee." Cried Mr. Burdick to the caucus: "Gentlemen, the Bolsheviks of the type you mention will man every committee of this Congress long before the Republican party is returned to power under your leadership." Stormed Mr. Lemke: "I'm not begging anything from the damned...
Lola Kinel returned from a visit to the U. S. just in time to see the first revolution in Petrograd. It was just like a Russian Easter. "It was grand. All one had to do to feel tremendously exhilarated was to go out on the streets." With the Bolshevik Revolution everything got more serious. Lola was an anti-Bolshevik. She turned down a chance to become one of Trotsky's secretaries, got a job instead on the Russian Daily News, only English daily paper in Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love...
...take on some of the dignity of predictions. Nazi strategists, political as well as military, were said to feel that the greatest folly would be a German invasion a la Napoleon which would lose itself in vast Russia, but that internal Russian forces of disunion would overthrow the Bolshevik leaders once the Russian people knew Dictator Stalin had been unable to hold Leningrad. "The Cradle of the Communist Dictatorship." and such parts of the Baltic regions and the Ukraine as would fall to an even moderately successful German drive. A preliminary Nazi move, much mooted today in European military circles...
...conquer all China. In this adventure the Soviet Government helped with money, munitions, propaganda spread ahead of General Chiang's soldiers by secret agents under Moscow's ace propagandist Michael Borodin, and finally by sending to act as Chiang's Chief-of-Staff the ablest Bolshevik strategist, then called "General Galen," today Commander-in-Chief of Soviet Armies in the Far East under the name of General Blucher...
...diplomats in Moscow with urgent queries. When correspondents galloped into the Soviet Foreign Office on the diplomats' heels they were received by an official who said that he personally wished with all his heart that Soviet bombers were roaring toward Madrid. "Unhappily it is not so," shrugged this Bolshevik spokesman, "the Soviet has given its word that it will not intervene in Spain and the Soviet has always lived up to its word...