Word: bolsheviks
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...next Communist to be tried will be Robert Minor, cartoonist, writer and former editor of the Liberator, leading Bolshevik monthly in America...
...meantime the ex-Patriarch Tikon languishes in a Moscow prison awaiting a civil trial on the charge of opposing the Bolshevik regime. The date of the trial is not yet known. A meeting of the people's commisars took place, however, and vainly tried to settle both the date of the trial and the extent of the sentence. Most of the commisars were in favor of the death sentence, but Georges Tchitcherin, Soviet Foreign Minister, protested vigorously. He argued that such a sentence would result in aggravating the boycott against Russia; he suggested that the death sentence might...
...hour-is also suffering a political change. " He represents a stern and rock-bound conservatism that is rapidly becoming obsolete, even in the camp of conservatives." The illustrative "he" is Calvin Coolidge. Once he was "our pride" because he would deliver us from the snare of the Bolshevik. No-to continue with an editorial in that brilliant sun-paper (Baltimore Sun): " He is unyielding and unbending in a viewpoint which, whatever its virtues, certainly falls far short of meeting the needs of such an age as this, when social and economic amelioration is an inevitable part of political evolution...
Representations were recently made by Gisaku Takigawa, President of the Kobe Chamber of Commerce, to the Government in Tokyo, asking for the resumption of trade relations as means of improving Japanese commerce. For this step Takigawa has been suspected of Bolshevik sympathy, and, it is reported, he was put under police surveillance...
Lieutenant Stevraki of the former Imperial Navy was sentenced to death by the Cheka, the extraordinary commission instituted by the Soviet Government to carry on the gruesome business of 'Bolshevik justice...