Word: communism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a book in one hand and a sword in the other, Anatole France served through the Franco-Prussian War of 1870; tried, aged 70, to enlist during the Great War. After the War, he was for a while a champion of communism, but later changed his mind...
...communism possible? Can class distinctions ever be done away with...
...Congresses of recent years, much interest was taken in the question of Communism. M. Tomsky made a veiled speech which was regarded as the subtlest Bolshevik propaganda. One H. Pollitt advocated an international conference of all trades union movements, including the Amsterdam and Moscow Internationales, with the object of bringing the "organized workers of the world under international fighting leadership...
...clear, however, that the Congress would not go on record in favor of any policy either directly or indirectly favoring Communism, although a strong sentiment existed in favor of combating the growth of international Capitalism. After this, discussion of policy at the proposed Conference was ruled...
...Yusuke Tsurumi, suave, patient young Japanese liberal, explained that the U. S. exclusion policy might well drive his countrymen into the dread Siberian morasses of Communism...