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...Make Revolutions. In the 20-year Soviet period now closing, Observer Lyons was in Russia during the period of six years which saw: the ending of the NEP (New Economic Policy) of Lenin; the expulsion of Trotsky; Stalin's economic regimentation of the Soviet Union by a policy of Five-Year Plans; and the ensuing industrialization and collectivization...
...from Moscow revolution in other lands. Recently the offices near the Kremlin of the Comintern or official Moscow bureau for fomenting the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" were closed, and not until last week did Moscow correspondents rediscover the Comintern occupying magnificent new quarters overlooking Moscow on the Lenin Hills. Divided into three five-story buildings connected by three-story sections, the colossal new quarters for fomenting World Revolution comprise just over 1,000 rooms...
...darkens, Europe mixes her cups of deah, all the little Caesars fidget on their thrones. The old wound opens its clotted mouth to ask for new wounds. Men will fight through; men have tough hearts . . . I see far fires and dim degradation Under the warplanes and neither Christ nor Lenin will save you. I see the March rain walk on the mountain, sombre and lovely on the green mountain. . . . I wish you could find the secure value, The allheal I found . . . The splendor of inhuman things...
...which governments take part only by regulating against abuses, Walter Lippmann looks for social progress, "the enlargement of the middle class as against the poor and the rich." To him this is not a pious hope but a sober expectation, for he concludes that the economic law which Lenin, Hitler and Mussolini try to attack and impair will compel men to rediscover and to re-establish the essential principles of a liberal society . . . the renascence of liberalism may be regarded as assured...
...readers, prodded as they are, are likely to miss Author Briffault's point. At the front Julian sees a coward's drunken action win a V.C. Nurses who served with "Martyr" Edith Cavell show no sympathy for her admirers. Meeting Lenin on his way back to Russia to guide the revolution, Julian wishes him every success. Briffault's spokesman-hero, written down as missing after a hopeless attack, recovers in a German hospital, goes to Russia rather than return to perfidious England after the Armistice. There he finds Zena again, marries her. Though he survives both...