Word: bombings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jugoslavian Infantry stationed at Bosiljgrad sat down for an hour to hear all about hand grenades, while other less fortunate soldiers drilled, marched and sweated in the courtyard below. Young Lieutenant Jovice gave the lecture. Before him lay a loaded hand grenade, not the compact "pineapple" type of Mills bomb familiar to thousands of U. S. War veterans, but a long handled "potato masher" grenade, the type once used by Germany. Said Lieutenant Jovice: "Five seconds after the safety pin is pulled out this bomb will explode. Were I about to throw it I would hold the bomb...
...relations with the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Within a few months the Labor Government was defeated on its Russian policy, a general election was called. At the height of a bitter campaign Lord Northcliffe's Daily Mail printed in noble indignation a letter apparently from Grigory Evseevich Zinoviev, "Bomb boy of Bolshevism," onetime director of the Third International, urging British Communists to revolt, Communist sympathizers in the British Army and Navy to mutiny. As a result the election went overwhelmingly Conservative. Soviet officials denied the Zinoviev letter, British Laborites insisted it was a forgery. Little could be proved...
...even a mediocre knowledge of the British Labor Party this attitude shows little more than prejudice and ignorance, but none the less it is adhered to with a varying degree of conviction by a large number of Americans to whom the word Socialist is synonymous with anarchy, bolshevism, and bomb throwing. The period through which Mr. MacDonald's government holds office will surely be rude awakening for the members of this school who will have enough interest to follow it through to its close...
According to the Zinoviev account of Berlin's May Day, it was the Social Democrats in the German Government who precipitated the police attack, not the Communists who invited it. The Social Democrats, boasted Bomb Boy Zinoviev, fear that the Communist Party is growing in Germany, fear it will get out of hand...
...Thomas J. Mooncy and Warren K. Billings, trade-unionists, were accused and convicted of murder after a bomb which killed ten, had been thrown into a San Francisco "Preparedness" parade. Later evidence seemed to prove them not guilty. Their judge and nine of their ten living jurors have since declared them guiltless. California has not reconsidered their case, which is now before Governor C. C. Young for a pardon. To propagandize in their favor a national "Mooney-Billings Committee" has been formed. Among its members are: Harry Elmer Barnes, Clarence Darrow, John Dewey, Glenn Frank, Alexander Meiklejohn, H. L. Mencken...