Word: bolsheviks
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...Dean, needless to say, is L. M. Karakhan, Bolshevik Ambassador to China, tall, black-bearded and suave, who was once called: "A Bolshevik who can wear white gloves gracefully...
...Stalin, chief of the Communist Party, and a member, with Kamenev and Zinoviev, of the so-called Bolshevik Triumvirate, last week addressed peasants' representatives, promised to grant land leases to the peasants for at least 20 years, perhaps 40 years, perhaps in perpetuity, which means unconditional return to private ownership...
...peasant representatives, who had threatened not to sow crops or to improve the land unless long leases were made and guaranteed, were flabbergasted, as well they might be. They asked if this new policy did not run counter to the Bolshevik Constitution and received in reply from Stalin: "We wrote the Constitution. We can change it also...
...many months, the Sofia Government has been deluging the Allied authorities with proofs of Bolshevik machinations in Bulgaria and has often and urgently made representations that the Bulgarian Army of the 20,000 volunteers permitted by the Treaty of Neuilly be supplanted by a conscript army of 50,000 to combat the growing Bolshevik menace. The Council of Ambassadors at Paris, guardian angels of the peace treaties, permitted (the week before the present outrages) an increase of 3,000 volunteers, a number which the Government thought totally insufficient, especially as it has repeatedly professed that it can place little reliance...
They told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...