Word: bolsheviks
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Sadoul. But the greatest news of the day, for Frenchmen at least, was the arrest of Jacques Sadoul. Once the member of a French Mission to Russia, Captain Sadoul had become so enamoured of Bolshevism that he deserted to the Bolshevik ranks. In 1919, a Paris court martial condemned him to death in absense for treason...
...return of Sadoul was attributed to a desire to cause a sensation on the day of the Bolshevik Ambassador's arrival. Had he waited a few weeks, he would have benefited from the amnesty law recently passed by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 1). But no, he came back to claim a retrial...
Because it was feared that some impetuous Bolshevik might attempt her life, the authorities sent a bevy of policemen and detectives to meet her. On the journey from the wharf to the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, where the Grand Duchess was staying, another bevy of motor-cycle bobbies clattered noisily in front, beside and behind her. Two detectives of the Bomb Squad were detailed to guard Her Imperial Highness throughout her U.S. visit...
Such precautions, while necessary, were none the less an act of courtesy from the U. S. Government, which does not recognize the Bolshevik regime in Russia...
Countess Karolyi has been exiled from her country ever since her husband's government was overthrown by the Bela Kun Bolshevik regime, which in turn was succeeded by the reactionary. White Terror of Admiral Horthy. At present she is touring the United States giving lectures on conditions in Hungary...