Word: bolsheviks
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...famous "quarantine" speech. He was the man who told Roosevelt that Mussolini and Hitler were actively intervening in Spain and that non-intervention was a farce. He is, in short, the embodiment of the modern American journalist-politician, the ideal New Dealer, the American equivalent of the glorified Bolshevik of Soviet literature...
Czechoslovakia was straddled by a new boss. His name was Antonin Zapotocky. At 64 he was the closest approach to an Old Bolshevik that new Czechoslovakia could produce...
...though they are, appear on the city's walls. They are the work of Marc Laverne, leader of an anti-Stalinist leftist group, a man so imbued with revolutionary fatalism that he seems like a disembodied symbol of rebellion. More human than Laverne is Ivan Stepanoff, an Old Bolshevik who has miraculously escaped from Stalin's prisons and who feels himself increasingly a historical anachronism. When Stepanoff is arrested, "his first concrete thought [takes] the form of a triple question . . . Vichy? Gestapo? OGPU? ... He [knows] how to recognize the agents of the OGPU," for he has had enough...
This growth was the "clearest index of true freedom of the press." How was this freedom defined? Said Pravda: "Every line in our newspapers and journals must be devoted to Bolshevik propaganda...
...paper's windows. The Nation Bege protected the window with an iron screen (which is still in place and known as the "Spaak grille"). But Belgians found it a little hard to take seriously a young radical who carried a walking stick. They called him "the Bolshevik in the dinner jacket...