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With continued Soviet assistance vital to China's resistance, Chungking, the official capital, last week commemorated the 21st anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on a scale not usually given to foreign celebrations. Newspapers featured side-by-side portraits of the Generalissimo, Stalin, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Lenin. At a mass meeting, Dr. Sun Fo, president of the Chinese Legislative Council, declared that China's only "true and real friend" was Russia. Premier Dr. H. H. Kung praised the achievements of the Russian Revolution, then berated the Chinese for not having sacrificed enough for victory...
...this week at No. 10 Downing Street continued her prayers with deep piety. If only the world can be made quite definitely more like Birmingham, the House of Chamberlain will consider this much better than if one of its sons had turned out to be a Napoleon or a Lenin-or an Eden...
Maurice Hindus' father was a Jewish kulak, engaged with great resignation in liquidating himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds...
...helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly missed marrying a rich, broad-shouldered, English adventuress. His next four affairs are merely talismans for guiding his speculations. A Russian exile's hard-luck tales, for example, prompt him to bet on Lenin, short-sell Russian bonds at a huge profit...
...Lenin, she says, could control Zinoviev, Radek, Trotsky, but she insists that he disliked Zinoviev, despised cynical Radek, whom she calls a vulgar politician, and distrusted Trotsky's ambition. As for Stalin, she says he was so little known in 1919 that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith...