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...Victory is ours!" Adopting the tactic of Lenin and Trotsky who made a point of telling their followers the worst during the Russian Revolution, Premier Largo Caballero and his Cabinet's strong man Air and Marine Minister Indalecio Prieto splashed out in Madrid papers the grim fact that in Madrid there were no more potatoes, fresh eggs or butter, scant meat or sugar and hardly any milk or olive oil. To these challenges the proletariat rose as 20,000 enlisted to fight as Red Militiamen-in a day and crowds kept milling around the Spanish Lenin's office...
...suppressed the Asturian miners' own attempt at a Marxian uprising, and they were out to get Colonel Aranda even though in so doing they imperiled the lives of their own families in the city he was defending. With the siege at its hottest, the Colonel abandoned the usual tactic of trying to defend a central stronghold, distributed the forces of the Revolution in various parts of the city and dared the Asturian miners to come on. On came the miners, chiefly armed with homemade dynamite bombs. On cheap cigars clenched in their teeth, they lighted the fuses of their...
...subsequent course of debate (see p. 22) the Prime Minister's party whips kept his Conservative henchmen on their feet talking about foreign affairs hour after hour, this tactic crowding Labor M. P.'s out of all adequate opportunity to express their views. It amounted, as one U. S. correspondent said, to a filibuster by His Majesty's Government to silence His Majesty's Loyal Opposition...
...leader, William Aberhart, whose ancestors were German, followed the tactic of Adolf Hitler in not standing for election to a legislative seat but devoting all his energies to boosting the Social Credit Party into power. This accomplished, plain Mr. Aberhart accepted from one of his Party henchmen last week the seat he had to have before he could be named Premier...
Journeyman is limited to 1,475 numbered copies. Probable reason for this publishing tactic is fear of Vice Suppressor John S. Sumner, who had the Viking Press haled before Magistrate Benjamin Greenspan more than a year ago on a charge that God's Little Acre was lascivious, lewd, indecent. Judge Greenspan, a liberal, failed to see eye to eye with Mr. Sumner, dismissed the charge. But the Viking Press prefers to be cautious with Journeyman. Less subtle than God's Little Acre, less clogged with esoteric symbolism, it is totally innocent of sexual circumlocutions...