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Insurrection, said Lenin, is an art. He did not add that the technique of insurrection is conspiracy. But Lenin taught his eager Bolsheviks that, besides every well-behaved, "legal" Communist Party, they must organize an "illegal," underground Communist Party. Its function, like the submerged three-quarters of an iceberg, would be to destroy in secret. Apt students of the Bolshevik art of conspiracy, as Hitler told Hermann Rauschning, were the Nazis. Soon Nazi Alfred Rosenberg modeled his foreign section of the Nazi Party after the foreign section of the Communist International. Soon Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo after Russia...
Nazi Abetz, whose wife is a Frenchwoman, ignored conservatives of the Laval-Pétain type, concentrated on such totalitarian-minded Leftists as Gaston Bergery, who launched the phrase "200 families." whose wife is a daughter of Bolshevik Leonid Krassin. Last week Abetz was rumored in Vichy to be the coming strong man of France. That Adolf Hitler would not mind seeing the Pétain Government overthrown was evident when the Berlin radio in a series of broadcasts characterized the men of Vichy as "hyenas tearing at the carcass of dead France," as "buzzards who eat one of their...
John Strachey (as he calls himself with Bolshevik brevity) is a big (6 ft.), rubber-jointed, rugby-shouldered Oxonian, with watchful, musing eyes, a somewhat rabbity mouth, puffy lips. In his youth he was a member of the British Labour Party. He and dark, lean, taut Sir Oswald Mosley (now imprisoned leader of British Fascism) stood for Parliament at the same time, quit the Labour Party at the same time. When Sir Oswald formed the National Party, young Strachey became his left-hand man. But by 1935 the young men were so far apart that Lady Mosley cried: "He claims...
...Communist intellectuals, Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey was more than a gentleman - he was a bourgeois Bolshevik. He exuded respectability, which - next to an aura of romantic criminality - is the quality middle-class Marxists most prize. Was not his cousin Biographer Lytton Strachey, whose bland ironies and subacid wit had done as much as any one intellectual force to sap his generation's faith in education, the church, the state? Cousin Lytton had knocked the notions of pre-Communist intellectuals into a half-cocked hat so successfully that Cousin John had only to pick up the pieces...
Born Skriabin in 1890, he was a son of a store clerk and turned revolutionist early. He took the name Molotov (Hammer) in 1914. During World War I he organized Bolshevik groups in Moscow, was exiled to Siberia, escaped and went underground in Petrograd. During the February Revolution he was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and collaborated with Lenin and Stalin. In 1922, during the Lenin-Trotsky split, Stalin replaced Molotov as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Molotov stayed on as Stalin's assistant, proved his loyalty during the Stalin-Trotsky...