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...Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary General of the Comintern (TIME, July 29). He was acclaimed with shouts of "Long live Dimitroff, our wise, courageous Helmsman!" Taking the helm of World Revolution, George Dimitroff...
First to come at the small, green, succulent frog was a four-foot schaapstecker (sheepsticker) snake. As the frog began disappearing head first down the schaapstecker's narrow gullet, a puffy night adder moved near. Seeing the adder, the schaap-tecker gulped hard to get its meal down safely; but the quick adder got hold of the frog's right hind leg, started swallowing the prize from that...
Then the cobra put down its head and glided forward. With a hungry gape of its flexible lower jaw it seized the frog by the middle and started swallowing it in a third direction. The schaapstecker and the adder, to their undoing, held on grimly...
Soon, by a series of forward jerks, the cobra shoved its jaws over the heads of the other two snakes. Its fangs sank home, its venom flowed, the adder and the schaapstecker went limp and helpless. Then slowly down the cobra's jerking, gullet passed frog, snakes and all. proving that in the snake world, victory is to him whose mouth holds most...
Four opposition Deputies had registered to "interpellate" (cross-examine for heckling purposes) the Foreign Minister. One of these was adder-tongued M. Henri Franklin-Bouillon whose savage philippic a year ago was a contributory cause of the upset of the last cabinet in which M. Briand was Prime Minister...