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Sixteen years ago a U. S. newspaperman, John Reed, wrote the first eyewitness account in English of Russia's Bolshevik revolution, in Ten Days that Shook the World. Brief, brisk, emphatically pro-Bolshevik, Reed's account won Lenin's approval, earned its author burial space in Moscow's place of honor in the Red Square, has served as a valuable source book for historians ever since. Last week another U. S. newspaperman, William Henry Chamberlin, for ten years Russian correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, offered the first definitive history of the turbulent period, including...
...Soviet press was quick to echo the gist of Stalin's speech last week. Announcing immediate plans for the construction of three planes just as big to be called Maxim Gorki II, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, the official Pravda cried...
...Josef Pilsudski, Socialist, was an exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Polish Socialist Party on Russian soil. A few years later found Conspirator Pilsudski doing in Poland exactly what Conspirator Stalin was doing in Russia proper: leading a gang of highway robbers and bank raiders whose object was to seize money for political propaganda. Even in those days Nikolai Lenin knew that Josef Pilsudski was no Socialist at heart. Said...
...undisguised sense of social consciousness permeates the heavy pages of the Advocate from its Lenin-red cover to its poem on the death of a Dutch Communist. Its effort to convince the bawling radicals that Harvard can be as good a guy as the best of them has made for the most readable Advocate in years...