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Samuel Gompers replied to Mr. Vauclain's remarks by denouncing his industrial attitude as "best typified by Lenin and Trotzky and their gang." "Trade unionism and freedom will come to Mr. Vauclain's shops," continued Mr. Gompers. " We shall not make threats. We leave that to him. But freedom will come, even into the last fastness of reaction. Neither Mr. Vauclain, Mr. Gary, nor any other autocrat can forever drive slaves on a tyrant's terms in the Republic of the United States. He does poorly to fling his brutal taunt into the faces of American manhood. The late George...
Officially Lenin is reported to be progressing favorably. Unofficially it is rumored that he has been dead for some weeks. As no one can see the Premier of the Russian Soviet Government, dead or alive, and as the press censorship is so severe that there is no possibility of a leak through official channels, the world will have to wait the pleasure of the parsimonious Bolsheviki...
...Kalinin, second President of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic: Represents the peasants, who reëstablished private property. "Lenin gazed at Russia through Kalinin's eyes as one gazes in a crystal.'' Tolerates religion. His old, religious mother is violently anti-Bolshevik. No one thinks of assassinating him because he is one of the "folks...
...Nikolai Lenin, Premier: Son of a noble, i.e., small hereditary landowner. Irreproachable morals. Strong character supplemented by feminine influence, particularly by his secretary, Fotiva, tall, dark, efficient woman of forty. He appears as the generous autocrat of Moscow. Amazing aptitude for detail. Behind a cold and calculating political mask, he hides a kind and gentle disposition. Every Soviet leader has "lost his head" at least once, except Lenin. Strives to westernize Russia...
Fotiva's influence over Lenin and Tchitcherin's weakness for lost tele- grams...