Word: bolshevik
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disturbed the initial balloting fortnight ago for the Chamber of Deputies. But Frenchmen continued to think for themselves and to vote according to their thoughts. They were not stampeded toward the political Right by scare stories that beloved old President Doumer had been done to death by a "regular Bolshevik." The second ballot took the same course as the first, a steady swing not to either extreme but from the Right Centre to Left Centre...
...World and the Flesh (Paramount) is a melodrama of the Russian revolution, replete with sardonic guffaws by George Bancroft and disdainful cigaret puffings by Alan Mowbray. Bancroft is a Bolshevik sea-captain named Kylenko. Mowbray is a calm patrician. His name is Dmitri and he uses his monocle in such debonair fashion that you are sure he will be executed before the picture ends. There is also a dancing girl (Miriam Hopkins) who is Dmitri's mistress. With her he runs away from the Bolsheviks. When they | reach the seaport of Theodosia, Dmitri thinks that he is safe...
...Stalin's proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped...
Died. Count Ottokar Czernin, 60, Wartime Foreign Minister of Austria-Hungary; of heart disease; in Vienna. Minister in Bucharest at the start of the War, he later dictated the peace terms to defeated Rumania, aided in forcing the treaty of Brest-Litvosk on Bolshevik Russia. Foreseeing ultimate defeat and consequent disintegration of the Dual Monarchy, he strove for peace, was made a scapegoat for his pains...
...Russians (nearly all anti-Bolshevik) in Harbin hoped Japan would push farther north and pick a real quarrel with Soviet Russia. Last week Harbin was exciting because Tokyo had heard from London which had it from Riga that in Moscow last week highest officials of the Communist Party stood around a table upon which Josef Stalin banged his fist, explaining his "Harbin Policy": Peace. Tokyo was titillated by the possibility that this "inside dope" might be wrong, that Russia might fight...