Word: katayama
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Foreign Minister Litvinoff was the U. S. "Workers' Party" (Communist) which persisted in announcing during the New York mayoralty campaign that one of its main objectives is "Militant support of the Soviet Union!" Finally in Moscow last week the inopportune death of cackling, seamy-skinned Comrade Sen Katayama, 74-year-old Japanese member of the Comintern Executive Committee, forced Dictator Stalin to make open display of the fact that he is still pro-Comintern (i.e. pro-World Revolution), despite his resignation from the Comintern Committee...
...great flakes Moscow's first heavy snow of the season was softly falling. Red Army divisions, snug in their ankle-length winter overcoats and turnip helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...