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...rule of this house," quavered Clara Zetkin, "that its oldest member shall preside at the opening of a new session. I was born July 5, 1857. Is there anyone older...
...summer day in 1925 dexterous Dr. Serge Voronoff had on his operating table a frail, weazened wisp of a woman. She was only 68 but German Reds hailed her as "The Grandmother of our Revolution!'' Years of bitter struggle had aged Frau Clara Zetkin before her time. She needed "rejuvenation." Dr. Voronoff did his best, grafted in bits of ovarian tissue, pronounced his operation "successful...
...Anyone Older?" Smudge-mustached Adolf Hitler, nervous lest some Fascist hoodlum disgrace the Party by buffeting a grandmother, barked stern orders. There would be a properly blatant Fascist demonstration outside the Reichstag, but inside let no Fascist Deputy touch one grey hair of Clara Zetkin's head...
...cries in front of the Reichstag, Grandmother Zetkin was carried in the back door on a stretcher, lifted to her feet. Leaning on a heavy cane, she advanced, flanked on either side by a big-hipped Amazonian Red. Pain and fatigue made perspiration pour down the sunken cheeks of Clara Zetkin but her old eyes flashed. "I shall do my duty in strict accordance with the rules of antiquated parliamentarianism," she gasped, "because it is my duty to the German proletariat...
...Grandmother Zetkin, and summoning all her strength, she began a speech that was to last 45 minutes. At times her voice almost died away. Several times the Amazons begged Grandmother to spare herself, but she quelled them with a muttered "Nein! Nein! I will speak on!" It was, as Clara Zetkin well knew, her last grand chance to tongue-lash her ancient enemy Paul von Hindenburg, 84 and unrejuvenated...