Word: bolsheviks
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...Communists themselves fell to quarreling openly. Some complained that "the kulaks have become impertinent"; the Communist Central Committee had to announce that it would not tolerate the "recurrent anti-peasant mood." Pudgy, bullet-headed Old Bolshevik Matyas Rakosi, no longer undisputed boss of Hungary, decried the "danger of right-wing tendencies," but the party organ Szabad Nep criticized instead "the narrow-mindedness and sectarianism of certain left-wing individuals...
...been going on since Stalin died. Less than three months after Stalin's death, full diplomatic relations were resumed. The Danube Commission, the Communist-run agency which regulates all that floats through central and southern Europe, relaxed its stranglehold on Yugoslav commerce. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution last November, Tito cabled Moscow his best wishes, got back Moscow's thanks. Last month the "Free Yugoslav" radio, which has been beaming anti-Tito propaganda into Yugoslavia from behind the Iron Curtain, stopped broadcasting. Early this month, the Russians and Yugoslavs signed a barter trade treaty...
...with Elmer Davis, that eminent piece of journalistic litmus paper, that ex-Communists are bores. But Koestler is no bore. He transformed history into literature of such reality that it, in turn, became history. His masterpiece, Darkness at Noon, was based on the Moscow trials and told how 01d Bolshevik "Rubashov" confessed falsely to a plot against the party, because confession was "the last service" he could render the party. While Koestler was writing that novel, Walter Krivitsky, ex-head of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe, was writing a factual account of how a false confession had been extracted...
...service, who has already come out of retirement several times when his country has called. A product of inherited wealth, Princeton and Harvard Law School, Norman Armour got his start under Joseph C. Grew (another diplomatic giant) in Vienna, married a White Russian wife whom he met during the Bolshevik revolution, has helped bolster U.S. prestige in 13 countries, including Franco's Spain and five posts in Latin America...
After falling deeply in love with Gorin's daughter Nina (the real Gorky had no daughter), Feodor is warned by his boss: "A Bolshevik cannot mix business with pleasure." Good Bolshevik Feodor drops her and marries a factory manager's daughter, but when the factory manager is denounced as "an enemy of the people" and thrown into a concentration camp, Feodor coolly abandons his pregnant wife...