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...fiery Vicente Lombardo Toledano, of the potent Confederation de Trabajadores de America Latina. The capable Mexican labor leader, having in recent years extended his organization into other Latin American countries, was able as the representative of some 4,000,000 workers to make his strength felt. An open split was averted by the arrival of C.I.O.'s Rolland Thomas, who, having had "a wash and a Scotch" at his hotel, made a fervent appeal for compromise. The compromise: ex-enemy delegates, if they present satisfactory union references, could be seated; otherwise they could only observe. ¶Britain...
...leaving, followed them to the home of Harvey Stemmer, a second racketeer. The detectives picked up the boys, grilled them at police headquarters. The youths got panicky and spilled a lurid story: they were members of the Brooklyn College basketball team, had pocketed bribes of $1,000 (to be split with three other teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged, for an additional $2,000, to toss a later game with St. Francis' College. Racketeers Rosen and Stemmer, byproducts of the big basketball gambling market, had set their sights on a sure...
...Facts, as Lenin liked to say, are stubborn things. These facts ran, like an obbligato of doubt, under the great gunfire of victory. But what chilled every thoughtful American and Briton and warmed every watchful German was the knowledge that with military success in sight the Big Three were split apart as never before. The stubborn fact of Allied relations was that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were preparing for a second Big Three meeting,* not because it was convenient to hold that meeting now, but because the crisis among the so-called United Nations had reached such a pitch that...
...Bolshevism," Bolsheviks liked to brag, "has peopled half the jails of Europe with philosophers." In almost no time Stalin became one of these philosophers. His first arrests were for organizing illegal strikes and Marxist groups. Later he was jailed on more colorful charges. When Lenin split the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (1903) into a minority (Mensheviks) and a majority (Bolsheviks), Stalin followed Lenin. But times were hard. The Bolsheviks were only a handful of zealots. Their work was hampered by comrades who eked out lean livings as revolutionists by spying in their spare time for the Tsar...
...Enemy of the People." The once-powerful Polish landlords might have done something. But Lublin's land policy has already split up many of their estates among the peasants. The landlords have gone into local administrative posts (when they played ball with Lublin), or gone to jail (when they did not). In London the Government in Exile was powerless. Premier Tomasz Arciszewski could merely growl: "We refuse to become a new Soviet Republic even under the name of 'independent Poland.'" Ex-Premier Mikolajczyk was already being denounced by Lublin as a "traitor to the Polish peasants...