Word: bolsheviks
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...portrait of John Reed to hang in one of her dormitories, Harvard has shown again, as she has so often in the past, that fine tolerance which is the hallmark of intellectual distinction. John Reed was one of her brilliant sons. He died for his faith in the Bolshevik revolution. It matters not that his political creed was in violent opposition to anything of the kind entertained by most Harvard men then or now. Harvard is not concerned with his opinions, but with the spirit of a man who gave everything he had in support of what he believed...
...would be the first to swallow its hatred of Communism and make a military ally of Soviet Russia? The Russians frankly needed and wanted a European friend to protect their back in case they ever fight Japan in the East. Germany and Poland, however, were too close to the Bolshevik Menace to see the opportunity. Three weeks ago France hesitantly took the plunge, signed a Treaty of Mutual Assistance with Russia (TIME, May 13). Last week Pierre Laval, Foreign Minister of France, arrived in Moscow to see what kind of a bargain he had. It was probably the best bargain...
...outstanding Harvard Graduate, an outstanding one because of his: "quality of courage, idealism, and independent mind," so outstanding in fact that he merits a large niche in Harvard's Hall of Fame. Isn't it a matter of fact that his real outstanding quality was that he was a Bolshevik and had he been a Russian Bolshevik and not an American Bolshevik, would anyone have recognized his "quality of courage, idealism, and independent mind...
...called "Liberty Cups," given as a badge of honor to the Members of the Boston Tea Party who destroyed the British tea in Boston Harbor. The British denounced that incident as an act of vandalism. Scuttling the American concept of Government by exalting an American Bolshevik is vandalism in my opinion of the worst type. John P. Story, Jr. M.I.T...
...Ambassador William Christian Bullitt is too good a diplomat to say that he thinks the way to deal with Russians is to treat them like grown-up children. But in Moscow last week he gave what amounted to a children's "animal party" for grown-up Bolshevik statesmen...