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This time they have been trying to succeed in breaking and ousting from the Russian Communist Party every critic of the Dictator-following the execution by firing squads of 16 of his critics as "Trotskyites" (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the hounding and persecution of even faintly suspect Party comrades...
Under Two Captains, mentioned by Mr. Allison, is the biography of my great grandfather, John Jacob Lehmanowsky, general under Marshal Ney, member of Napoleon's intimate circle, close friend of the Marquis de La Fayette of Revolutionary War fame. Loving France, the country of his mother (his father a...
For the first time since the legend prevailed, a French historian has made reply to the long-existing claim in Eastern North Carolina that Marshal Michel Ney lies buried there, that he escaped execution in Paris on Dec. 7, 1817, was smuggled to Charleston, S. C. and died many years...
Referring to Stalin's recent execution in Russia of Zinoviev (né Apfelbaum) and Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) as abettors of Stalin's enemy Trotsky (né Bronstein), Dr. Goebbels snorted: "Every inner Bolshevist struggle is a family fight among Jews!* . . . We can discuss this question frankly only...
THE MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis XVI...