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...surrealistic," says Dali. One of his paintings, he recalls, showed Lenin with a buttock three meters long, propped up by a crutch. Dali had hoped to shock and impress his fellow surrealists, but they were bored. Dali then turned his artistic attention to Adolf Hitler...
...Lenin in His Showcase
Concerning your note, "Kremlin Waxworks" [TIME, May 19], I have long been an admirer of Robert Service. My admiration has now increased. The reason is to be found in a poem, The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb, which contains the following lines...
...army in the summer of 1914, but in less than six months his soldiering was over, his arm gone. In an army hospital, he taught himself in two weeks to write lefthanded. Disgusted with "the Kaiser's war," he turned to Socialism, read Marx and was impressed, read Lenin and disagreed (particularly with his contempt for democracy), earned his doctorate at the University of Münster. He rejected the Marxist notion of violent class revolution, embraced instead the doctrine of democratic evolution through parliamentary means. ". . . Marxism is no catechism for us," he said. "It is nevertheless the method...
Sachs made a trip home to Russia in 1921 and came back a Communist, but he was publicly expelled by the party in 1931. The creed he now proclaims is "South Africa needs not Lenin, but Lincoln." Only last year, South Africa's supreme court ruled that he is not a Communist. To many, including influential conservative newspapers, the Malan government seemed less concerned with Sachs's being a Communist than with getting control of his and other trade unions, then forcing them to follow the Nationalist Party's apartheid (segregation) line...