Word: bolsheviks
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...near-flops. Stars and casts voted overwhelmingly to donate their talents, provide Mr. Hoover with more money to cable to Helsinki. Only the casts of Tobacco Road and a four-months something called See My Lawyer refused. Newspapers came through with oodles of publicity, especially Mr. Hearst's Bolshevik-hating press...
...ironically titled Russian film which demonstrates that Soviet directors can still handle people in masses with a realism and a feeling for mob movement unknown to Hollywood. Its story of Russian efforts to fraternize with the German Army in 1917 also conveys some unintentional advice to wise Finns from Bolshevik Leader Lenin. His recipe for breaking up an invading army: "Turn the imperialist war into a civil war." Like pipe-smoking Comrade Stalin, whom the picture glorifies, producers, scripters and most of the actors in this Russian film are Georgians...
Then Comrade Ben Gitlow rose to speak. He knew he was licked. But he knew U. S. workers were not quite ready for a Bolshevik revolution. Again he pleaded that Stalin not completely hogtie U. S. Communists with Russian foreign policy. Concluded Gitlow: "Not only do I vote against the decision, but when I return to the United States, I will fight against it!" Followed a moment of heavy silence; then a low whewing whistle of collective shock...
...Bolshevik Revolution of October 1917, he was a relatively unimportant member of the Party's steering committee whose greatest service had been as exiled Lenin's go-between with colleagues in the 1913 Duma and as an assistant on the Petrograd Pravda. In numerous reorganizations of the governing structure which took place after the Bolsheviks came to power, Comrade Stalin always had a high post, but his work was also invariably overshadowed by the spectacular showings of Lenin, the Party's chairman, and Trotsky, the War Commissar...
Gedye of the New York Times and others have announced the belief that Bolshevik policy today aims to keep all Europe at war until the day of "World Revolution." Last week this story was nailed by Communist No. 1. He took as his text reports carried by the French Havas News Agency that on Aug. 19 in Moscow, Dictator Stalin, addressing the Politburo or steering committee of the Communist Party, "expounded the idea that the war should last as long as possible so that the belligerents would become exhausted...