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...peoples of Europe and America for their independence, for democratic liberties." Here Comrade Stalin swallowed another gulp of tea and thanked Great Britain and the U.S. for their offers of aid. Calling on all the people to rally around, not the Communist State, but "the party of Lenin-Stalin," he concluded: "Forward, to our victory...
...pitted with water as Swiss cheese with air, because Russia is naturally defended from Rumania by the Prut and Dniester Rivers, Germany's two stooges on the flanks did little. Finland toppled reluctantly into the war as German drives developed on Murmansk in the far north and on Lenin grad across the scarred Karelian Isthmus...
...Lenin early urged British Communists to affiliate with and disrupt the Labor Party. He wrote: "I want to support [Arthur] Henderson with my vote in the same way that a rope supports a hanged man." But all efforts of the Communists were beaten off by Labor's leadership, with the support of the rank & file. Last Communist effort came in 1937 when Laborite Sir Stafford Cripps (whose long-standing friendliness to Moscow was last week honored by Hitler himself as a casus belli} and a handful of followers tried to force the Labor Party into a Popular Front...
...assumed that Mr. Churchill spoke for Franklin Roosevelt too. So sure were newsmen that some kind of aid would be forthcoming that they quoted a Washington wisecrack: "The Aid Democracies Bill has become the Lenin-Lease Bill...
...chose that year because in 1859 Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species, Karl Marx published his Critique of Political Economy, Richard Wagner finished Tristan und Isolde. These three were the intellectual forebears of Lenin, Hitler, Mussolini. They were the intellectual forebears of nearly everybody else in the Western world too. And, says Author Barzun, "it would be hard to find in the whole history of Western civilization a corresponding trio to share the honors of a single epoch with such perfect parallelism...