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Died. Gleb Maksimilianovich Krzhizhanovsky, 87, oldest Bolshevist revolutionary, who shared with Lenin a 17-month prison term that began in 1895, later became a director of the Soviet Union's first Five-Year Plan, was eulogized in 1957 by the Current Digest of the Soviet Press as "one of the founders of the State Commission for Electrification of Russia . . . founder of the scientific school of Soviet power engineering, a dreamer and poet...
Poisonous Cads. As perhaps the ranking, and certainly the most rancorous, Roman Catholic man of letters in England, Belloc felt he was living in a "hostile society." Yet he confessed to an affection for England "so intense that it is actually physical" (despite the "bad cooking and the pro-bolshevist press"). When he wrote letters in verse to friends such as Diplomat-Poet Maurice Baring, he insisted that it was because he had no time to write prose. As he observed in his snaggly, almost indecipherable hand...
Died. Lewis Corey (real name: Louis C. Fraina), 61, author-economist, who helped organize the U.S. Communist Party (1919) and became its first secretary; of meningitis; in Manhattan. Born in Italy, he came to the U.S. as a child, joined the Socialist Party, after the 1917 Bolshevist Revolution emerged as a spokesman of the party's Marxist extremists, hoped to become an American Lenin. Under federal indictment for sedition, Agitator Corey fled the country in 1920, in Moscow got a hero's welcome and a disillusioning first look at the new workers' paradise. Back...
Died. Mikhail Markovich Borodin (real name: Mikhail Gruzenberg), 68, top international Communist agent during the '20s; of unannounced causes; somewhere in the Soviet Union. Born in Byelorussia, he joined the Bolshevist underground at 19, in 1906 fled from Czarist police into exile in the U.S. Back in Russia after the 1917 revolution. Borodin soon went abroad as a Communist legman, fomented abortive "workers' revolutions" in Spain (1919) and Mexico (1920), directed Communist infiltration of labor unions in the U.S. and Scotland. In 1923 came Agitator Borodin's big assignment: advising (and infiltrating) China's struggling revolutionary...
Died. General Nicholas Plastiras, 70, oldtime revolutionary and war hero, and three times Greece's Premier; of a heart ailment; near Athens. Risen from the ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator...