Word: proletariat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street the Prime Minister and the German Ambassador had a long talk. From this Herr von Ribbentrop drove directly to Croydon, flew to Berlin and there signed for the German Government its treaty with the Japanese Government uniting these powers against Communism and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat fomented by the Comintern from Moscow. With deliberate Japanese-German irony this pact is not directed against the Soviet Union, only against Moscow's Communism...
...representing 5% of the value of their property. If they lack cash to buy these radical bonds they are forced to borrow it from the Government, paying interest on the loan. In Russia the financing of Five-Year Plans by forced loans is continually cleaning the pockets of the proletariat. In Germany moderate Adolf Hitler has greatest difficulty in restraining the arrant radicals of the Nazi Party led by such as Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels who continually agitate to persuade Der Führer to reshuffle the German capitalist economy drastically. Japan's new Cabinet is "opposed to such...
...personage or even a comrade known to be intimate with Stalin. Reason: nearly every country which has recognized the Stalin regime has exacted formal treaty pledges-as did President Roosevelt-that Soviet diplomats, consuls and such will not in practice work to foment the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" to which every Communist is pledged in theory. Mr. Roosevelt went even further, exacting from Comrade Stalin a pledge not to have on Russian soil any organization or persons engaged in attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government, including even U. S. citizens so attempting...
Trotsky urged the industrialization oi Russia, and that was "Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor; replacing horses and Moscow able at any moment to shut off the gasoline if the peasants got obstreperous. That too was "Trotskyism," bitterly denounced by Stalin until, Trotsky having been ousted, it became and is today Stalinism...
...surprised six months hence to see himself seated before the same typewriter in the same place writing a summary of the first year of the war. . . . All Europe has been drawn into the conflict and there has been a mass uprising more significant than anything since the Russian proletariat rose in 1917. . . . The hatred which has been aroused on both sides is indescribable. ... It is a question whether France and England can keep out indefinitely If those countries join in to help Madrid there will be a European war; if they do not, there is still a chance that Germany...