Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then, there was a visit paid by Alexei Rykov, Chairman (Premier) of the Council of People's Commissars (Cabinet), to Trotzky in the Caucasus. There were long secret discussions between Rykov, Kamenev and Stalin (the last two, with Zinoviev, formed the so-called triumvirate, a body bitterly opposed to Trotzky). Suddenly Trotzky came back. Zinoviev departed. The Council of Commissars is to be reshuffled. Rumors say that Trotzky is to supplant Krassin as Commissar of Foreign Trade, Kamenev is to supplant Zinoviev as Chairman of the Internationale, "other employment" is to be found for Zinoviev...
...from Sofia throughout the past week. They told a tale of arrests, shootings, more bombings, discoveries of incriminating Communist documents. There was an unbelievable amount of exaggeration which made the situation so hypertrophied that it looked like a veritable reign of terror, instituted by the Tsankoff Government. Indeed, Foreign Commissar Georg Tchitcherin, sitting at his desk in Moscow, was horrified to hear of the excesses committed at the orders of Premier Tsankoff and his Ministers...
...Commissar Rykov, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, of- fered Trotzky a high place in the Bolshevik Government...
...short while ago, Norway upheld its dry law in a general election. France has placed all radio under the censorship of the police. Smoking has been prohibited in Mecca, the Holy City of the Moslems. In Russia the soviet commissar of health has issued an edict against kissing. Not only is the usual form of this indoor sport forbidden, the kissing of ladies' hands by men is also taboo. The practice is doubly accursed, being both unhygienic and bourgeois. Handshaking, too, has been prohibited in many departments...
Comrade Semashko, Commissar of Public Health, averred that the War Lord was in Moscow, that his health had forced him at the last moment to cancel his trip to the Caucasus, that he was busy on some literary work, his health meantime much improved. The Commissar said that the War Lord was not in prison, but living quietly in a modest apartment in Moscow and would go south in a few days...