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...make us safe for Washington or Lenin...
...something. . . . How do you suppose all this happened? This is the way it happened: The young brain-trusters caught the Socialists in swimming and they ran away with their clothes. Now, it is all right with me, if they want to disguise themselves as Karl Marx or Lenin or any of the rest of that bunch, but I won't stand for their allowing them to march under the banner of Jefferson or Jackson or Cleveland...
...Soviet Hero John Reed, onetime wife of U. S. Ambassador to U. S. S. R., William Christian Bullitt; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Sevres, France. Pretty, sharp-witted, she married Reed in 1917, followed him from Greenwich Village to Moscow, became a champion of the Bolsheviki, a close friend of Lenin. When Reed died of typhus in 1920, she wrote for Hearst, wangled the first interview from Mussolini. In 1923 she married Socialite Bullitt, bore his daughter Anne in 1924, was divorced by him in 1930 for "personal indignities." Thereafter, in constant financial difficulties, she made her home in Paris...
...late, great Nikolai Lenin plastered all Russia with Karl Marx's slogan, "Religion is opium for the people," but Dictator Lenin's household celebrated with a tree every year, Bolshevism or no Bolshevism. Only under Dictator Stalin were Christmas trees in Russia made socially tabu. Last week the lid was off. Savants of Bolshevism gamboled at the Lenin Institute, where the features of their Grandfather Frost were those of Bolshevism's great pioneer in blazing new Arctic routes, Professor Otto Schmidt (TIME...
...interview with Queen Marie of Rumania. Once more in the U. S., her active indignation sent her into the great steel strike of 1919, then into organizing shirtmakers for the militant Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Finally she went to Russia, rode on a propaganda train with Kalinin, talked to Lenin, listened to Trotsky. Going home that time, second class, was an anticlimax: "Hungry gluttonous people fell upon the good food wolfishly. The ship swiftly split up into the goods and the bads. The bads had a good time and the goods talked about them...