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...favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
...Marx to Lenin); of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...said that "painting the Sermon on the Mount without Christ was the greatest puzzle of his career." The reporter remembered that one wall of the RCA Building lobby where Brangwyn's mural will go was blank last week because Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera had refused to paint Nicolai Lenin out of his great panel. The story blathered across Manhattan's front pages that "Rockefeller Center Bars Jesus From Mural." Quietly Architect Hood said, "Whatever Brangwyn does-even if he presents the actual figure of Christ-will probably be accepted...
Item: 1887, the youth Josef Pilsudski nicknamed "Ziuk" by his fellow students at the University of Kharkhov, was arrested and charged with complicity in an abortive plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander III. Among leaders of the plot who were hanged was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin. Though nothing could be proved against Prisoner Pilsudski, he was sentenced to five years exile in Siberia Last week Dictator Pilsudski remembered that in Siberia he was well treated by sympathetic guards, was even permitted to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...bandits organized by Activist Pilsudski were charged by the Imperial Police with raids and bank robberies all over southern Russia, similar to those staged during the same period by Activist Stalin. The stolen money, in both cases was used to finance the Party of Revolution-which meant to Lenin and to Stalin the Communist Party. Said Lenin to Pilsudski about this time. "You are our companion in arms until the fall of Tsarism but after that you will turn your back on us.'' Said bristling Pilsudski to a group of Socialists long after the World War from which...