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Born in Elizabethgrad in the Russian Ukraine, the son of a Jewish school teacher, Alex Gumberg migrated to the U. S. by himself at 15, became a licensed pharmacist. But he kept in touch with Bolshevik doings and returned to Russia after the Kerensky revolution. There he met, through William Boyce Thompson, Colonel Raymond Robin, head of the American Red Cross mission. In those troubled times Mr. Thompson could get no meat for his wolfhound. Gumberg got it., He became confidential agent for the Red Cross. Through the Red Cross he formed his enduring friendship with Judge Thacher...
...whirlwind expansion into Asia, Russia had teamed up with France; Englishmen were quoting Kipling's "The Bear that walks like a "Man"; Russians were damning England as the land of money-loving merchants. Thereupon, in 1907, they agreed to an alliance against Germany. By 1917, after the Bolshevik Revolution, they were enemies again; in 1927, three years after they had exchanged chargés d'affaires, England broke off relations as a result of Comintern anti-British propaganda in China. Two years later, while the British press tiraded against Communism, the British sent an ambassador to Moscow...
...strike have a way of disappearing the same night), but the Russian peasant is the Kremlin's chronic headache. His food is needed to feed the proletariat, his sons are needed for the Red Army. Even collective farms have failed to turn the mulish muzhik into a village Bolshevik. Wily as any Communist, the peasants long ago wrung from the Kremlin permission to till personal plots on collective farms, sell their produce in the open market...
...that Writer Levine had collaborated with the general, explained: "Krivitsky doesn't write English and Levine did his translating." As for Krivitsky's name being Ginsberg, the Post said: "That's quite true, but Trotsky's name is Bronstein. It's just an old Bolshevik custom." The Post added that it had checked through the U. S. Embassy in Paris and the State Department in Washington and was satisfied that its author was the real Krivitsky...
...Author Padover, mark the consistent advances of the Revolution, and make him the king-cog of the revolutionary turnover. Much new archive material documents this competent appraisal of an unheroic fat man trying to keep his head in a high historical wind. Inescapable is the conclusion that the bolshevik bourgeois and proletarians of 1793 "liquidated" the one French king who was more bourgeois than Bourbon, with a wide stripe in him of poor but honest artisan...