Word: bolsheviks
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...Jesus, its supremacy in the U.S.S.R. to that of the Pope in his temporal glory. They quote Stalin: "We may say that the dictatorship of the proletariat is substantially the dictatorship of the Party, as the force which effectively guides the proletariat." The Webbs poke mild fun at the Bolshevik fondness for the word "dictatorship,'' think it a misnomer for the Party's "inspiration, evocation and formulation of a General Will'' among Russia's millions. The Party is outside the constitution; it broods over the body politic like the spirit over the waters...
Having thus conjured up the horrid vision of uncounted millions of Bolshevik Frenchmen and Bolshevik Russians leagued suddenly against the German Nazis, Realmleader Hitler with pistol-shot rapidity spat out what he was doing about all this. At that very moment last week German troops on his orders were dashing into the Demilitarized Rhineland. He ignored the illegality of this deed under the Treaty of Versailles and maintained that the Franco-Soviet Treaty had voided the Locarno Pact, hitherto the main bulwark of peace in Western Europe...
...contrive that Bolshevik Russia and Republican France should somehow be linked in close mutual accord has become a ruling passion with the wealthy No. 1 Socialist of France, that exquisitely cultivated Jew and famed rabble-rouser, M. Léon Blum. From rostrums as various as the curbstone of a Paris slum and the tribune of the Chamber, long-nosed, stringy-haired M. Blum has clarioned: "Socialism is my religion!" Last week he lay in bandages, "put to bed for his religion" by Royalist youths, who thus brazenly described the outrageous beating they gave Socialist Blum when his appearance...
Blum for Premier? To Léon Blum there was never any question but that the Franco-Soviet Pact must be ratified-even with the dangers of touching off hair-trigger Nazis, incurring possible rupture of the Locarno Pact, and entering the bear-like embrace of Bolshevik Russians. His Socialist spirit is fixed with religious fanaticism; he hates Nazis as they can only be hated by one who is a Socialist, a Frenchman and a Jew; and he hopes with something like passionate prophecy that French voters next April will for the first time give French Socialism a clear mandate...
...whip that cracks loudest and most potently in Russia is the Communist Party newsorgan Pravda ("Truth"), in which Joseph Stalin's lightest whims and heaviest commands, usually unsigned, often appear first. Last week that prominent Old Bolshevik, the editor of the Soviet Government newsorgan Izvestia ("News"), famed Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin, expressed the editorial opinion that the Russian people were "a nation of Oblomovs" (i. e., lazy, good-for-nothing dreamers like Oblomov, principal character in the famed Goncharov novel) prior to their glorious awakening by the Revolution of 1917. Crack!-Pravda came out with an editorial flaying Old Bolshevik...