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Freeman lectured on poetry to workers in the needle trades, noting that they liked Whitman but complained that T. S. Eliot was as bad as the Talmud. He worked his way to Russia on a freighter, got a job at the office of the Comintern as a translator. In Russia during the excitement before the expulsion of Trotsky, he was depressed by the conflicts in the Communist Party, dispirited by the unprincipled career-hunting he observed, but did not lose his faith in Communism as a result. He is now on the editorial staff of the New Masses...
...famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
Prisoner Fritz David, said to be a German, confessed that at the 1935 Comintern Congress he sat in a box clutching in his pocket a pistol with which to shoot Stalin. "The chance did not come, however," added David. "Police were in the same box with me." Over & over Kamenev, Zinoviev and other prisoners got around to confessing in various ways that their purpose as conspirators was simply to kill Russia's pres-ent rulers and become masters of the State themselves, with no program in mind as to how they would run Russia, and no smallest criticism...
Amid the tense, confused situation in Madrid an ominous reality loomed in the fact that Communists and Socialists had pooled their votes, their voices and their actions in Spain. This was in accordance with the new "united front policy" adopted last year in Moscow by the Comintern or United Communist Parties of the World, on the shrewd instruction of Joseph Stalin (TIME, Aug. 5 et seq.). Intimidation, not votes, was the force which actually opened Spain's jails last week and spewed out 30,000 "politicals...
...breaking off diplomatic relations with the U. S. S. R.. President Terra cited the unsuccessful revolt in Brazil in November, which was led by an authentic graduate of the Comintern, the Moscow bureau for fomenting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Declared the Uruguayan Government last week: "The Soviet Government cannot disclaim connection with the Comintern and its revolutionary program in South America, for Joseph Stalin opened and closed the last Congress of the Comintern. . . . We have proof that Minkin* was organizing a revolution in Uruguay for next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ...