Word: bolshevists
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When frail, tired "N. Lenin" (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) died in 1924, the Bolshevist high command decided upon a strictly non-Christian apotheosis. A conference of scientists was called to find means of preserving the body. Biochemist Boris Ilyich Zbarsky and Anatomist Vladimir Petrovich Vorobev offered to try, worked four months on the cadaver, which subsequently appeared under glass in a temporary tomb in the Red Square. When plans for the permanent tomb had finally been agreed on, the corpse vanished for 18 months into the recesses of the Kremlin. At last in 1930 the new mausoleum was completed...
...mention was made of Paul Hindemith, Germany's most promising composer, for whose sake Furtwängler defied the Nazis four months ago (TIME, Dec. 24). Hindemith was boycotted then as a "cultural Bolshevist" who in his early operas had used librettos not in the spirit of the German "world outlook." He was flayed also for having married a Jewess, for once having played chamber music with Jewish musicians, for having made phonograph records with a Jewish 'cellist, a Jewish violinist...
...moment it was forgotten that they were used in the United States Senate Restaurant and it was feared that the elder brothers of the N.S.L. had been at work. When the situation was realized things had gone so far that the only way to avoid a nation-wide Bolshevist scare was to have the linen marked plainly "Senate Restaurant...
After gravely noting developments, it is difficult to suppress a certain derision at the almost indecent change in the French attitude toward Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French loans, and others, made to czarist Russia. With the Bolshevist success, the French peasants, invested in those loans on governmental advice. Like many other governments the French firmly and righteously refused for a many years to deal with Soviet Russia. But the logic of events (and the French, it appears, pride themselves on their logic) forced the two governments to resume diplomatic relations. The threatened military recrudescence of Germany...
Here the proof of the international operations of armament makers is open is no question at all. In corroboration there is spread upon the records the testimony of Deputy Pierre Etienne Flandin (scarcely a flaming Bolshevist, for he was later Finance Minister under Tardieu) to the effect that he, an artillery of the French Second Army had been expressly forbidden to bombard Briey when the chance existed, and when a ten-mile penetration of the sector would have come close to spelling German ruin. And the statement of his colleague, Deputy Barthe, in the Chamber on January 24, 1919, lost...