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...opera, the theme of which was the Communists' famed "long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only the first.' " Planes roared overhead and scattered leaflets on the crowd below. The message...
...Engels in London in 1864, which was split by the Russian anarchist Bakunin a few years later; the Second ("Social Democratic") International, founded by Karl Kautsky, George Plekhanov and others in Paris in 1889, which fell apart in World War I; the Third International (Comintern), set up by Lenin in Moscow in 1919 and officially dissolved by Stalin in 1943; the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky's splinter Communist party, which he set up in Mexico in 1938 after Stalin drove him out of Russia...
...them in the fish tank. At sea, the Trojan horse was opened, the armed Reds seized the trawler's officers and sailed into Murmansk. (The shipping company afterwards billed the Soviet government for the trawler; the bill was paid without a murmur.) In Moscow, Comrades Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin gave Wollweber a hero's reception. In his brief stay there, Wollweber sensed that Stalin was the man to back in the party struggle then brewing, and he bet his future on it. Wollweber and Stalin have been personal friends since...
...Lenin. 4. Trotsky...
Died. Titus Kammerer, 86, Swiss shoemaker who unwittingly harbored one of history's most famous exiles; after long illness; in Zurich. During the years 1916-17, he rented two rooms to a quiet, stay-at-home tenant who always promptly paid the rent. The tenant: Nikolai Lenin...