Word: april
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him with speeches and with a bouquet that he handled as gingerly as if it had been a bomb. The phrase "to the Finland Station" has a symbolic meaning, implies something like a rendezvous with destiny...
What made the Communist nose-in-air the more remarkable was that it had been there so often before. Last April, when former Communist Agent Walter Krivitsky, onetime Chief of Military Intelligence in Western Europe, publicized Stalin's undercover activities in the Saturday Evening Post, accurately forecast the Nazi-Communist Pact, Communists blandly asserted there was no such Krivitsky, featured a creepy New Masses article: "General Krivitsky, you are Shmelka Ginsberg!" At 10:30 one morning last week there appeared before the Committee a slight, thin-faced, intense man of 40 who was introduced by Chairman Dies...
...what of Hitler's record as a conferee? Until last week he never used the word conference in other than an abusive sense. He has yet to answer Franklin D. Roosevelt's April invitation to a world peace-&-security conference. His diplomatic dealings have been consistently bilateral, even in the Axis. Italy did not sit in on the Russian Pact. Furthermore, conferring is clearly not Adolf Hitler's dish. He cannot listen...
What he said in his cold, precise voice was as simple as it was devastating. Instead of the $3,768,000,000 of revenue estimated last April, the Government would need no less than $8,000,000,000 for the first year of its war against Adolf Hitler...