Word: bolsheviki
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...spent a night as a hob in the Wayfarers' Lodge some of his bedfellows were Reds who had threatened in pen and ink to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Friday night at 12," wrote one of the avengers. Peters had made brave war upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters of the slums who took the compulsory shower bath and gave...
...there is one group of men who have the power to gather together the stray ends of opposition, to unify the disorganized but widespread resistance to the Soviets. This is the Constituent Assembly, duty elected by universal suffrage to represent all-Russia and dissolved three years ago by the Bolsheviki when they set up by force their military regime. Former Premier Kerensky has issued a manifesto calling a hundred members to a conference in Paris "to devise ways and means for the defense of the honor, the self-respect and patrimony of Russia before the peoples of the entire world...
General Wrangel's futile attempt to establish a true freedom in Russia has failed. Fighting a losing campaign ever since the Polish Treaty left the Bolsheviki free to turn the whole power of their armies against his troops, he has at last been literally smothered by superior numbers in the region of the Crimea...
...safely dispense with compulsory service. They distrust Germany's intentions of carrying out the terms of the Versailles Treaty; they feel that England has deserted them on the Polish question and has tricked them in the Near East; and they suspect Italy of too much friendliness for the Bolsheviki. Consequently until some general disarmament plan, such as the one proposed in the League convenant shall function, the government dares not discontinue the system of compulsory service,-they system which has cursed Europe and played no small part in making possible the World...
...progress will be made by shouting Bolsheviki and profiteers. What we need is thrift and industry. Profitable employment is the death blow to Bolshevism and abundant production is disaster to the profiteer...