Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Candid camera shots at Brussels showed last week (see cut) that British Foreign Secretary Eden elevates his teacup so close to his face that it almost covers his nose, extends his fifth finger to the full; while Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff keeps his cup nearly level, protrudes his lips toward it, bending his head and sucking in the tea. Long-reach cookie snatching, by delegates leaning across in front of other delegates who already had their cookies and kept standing close to the table, was also in order at Brussels...
...member of the Fifteenth International Brigade, Bates served as political commissar for the loyalist armies on several fronts. Revealing the hardships which he had witnessed during the early stages of the siege of Madrid, he insisted that no one could criticize the relief which the Russian munition shipments brought to those in the city...
...time of his death Bronstein was serving as political commissar in the George Washington Battalion. He was twenty-five years...
...Revolution was a gala preview of the Soviet film Lenin in October attended by Stalin. In this it is not Lenin & Trotsky who make the Revolution of 1917 but Lenin & Stalin. The historic role of Trotsky as creator of the Red Army and as the Soviet War Commissar who defeated the White Armies and saved the Revolution is entirely omitted, as are other Old Bolsheviks who have now been executed. Watching the film this week, Our Sun beamed to observe that Lenin, impersonated by ace Soviet Cinemactor Schchukin, not only never has any dealings with Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...