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...Bolshevist guillotine was built by Lenin. Trotsky as well as Stalin, Kamenev as well as Zinoviev, helped in its erection...
...After two and a half years of blundering war, England tired of its tight-lipped professionals, put Lloyd George, an intelligent amateur, in charge. Tsar Nicholas renounced his throne while excited soldiers in St. Petersburg "swore eternal loyalty to something that they could not catch quite distinctly." Lenin arrived in Russia, half-expecting arrest, to find an uproarious reception. When his Bolsheviks had driven out Kerensky, "the poetry of revolution had been defeated by its prose...
...Heavy Industry Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze, whose department has made headlines by lagging behind the current Five-Year Plan; 3) Grigoriy Sokolnikov, once Vice-Commissar of Foreign Affairs and onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James; 4) N. I. Muralov, leader of the proletarians who seized Moscow while Lenin & Trotsky were seizing Petrograd in 1917 and for many years Soviet Commandant of the Moscow Garrison. At the unique sort of trial which is Communism's gift to Jurisprudence, every Russian present, as well as the experienced Moscow diplomatic corps and foreign press, knew last week that the charges which...
...sure they don't harm the Holy Mother of our part of Seville. Somebody fired at her last time, and you can be sure it was one of those psalm-singing Fascists, the stinking dogs!" As each of these Communists was supposed to believe with the late Great Lenin that "Religion is the opium of the people," observers could only repeat the old saw, "Most Catholics in Spain are pagan, but not all of them know...
...return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest Trotsky, respectfully watched and waited on by dark-eyed young Hostess Rivera, had resumed dictation to his secretaries of his monumental Biography of Lenin, begun nearly two years...