Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Russia, long the most hated nation in the world, became by virtue of the treaty the most sought-after power in the world. U. S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt, who had vacationed in the U. S. while the treaty was being cooked up, paid a hurried call on Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov. British Ambassador Sir Stafford Cripps got busy. Japanese Ambassador Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, who hates Communists but loves the "simple, pure-minded Russians," conferred with German Ambassador Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg about the non-aggression treaty Japan hopes to negotiate with the U. S. S. R. to safeguard...
...defender of the Marxist faith in matters esthetic for Linkskurve (Left Curve), the most influential German Marxist literary magazine. In Spain Lukacz (General Paul in The Great Crusade) was general of the Eleventh and Twelfth International Brigades. He quickly made Author Regler (Albert in The Great Crusade) his political commissar...
Said General Paul: "A commissar is a maid of all work, a democratic priest, an army doctor with his fingers always on the pulse of the Brigade." More significantly he added: "You are my third...
General Lukacz was killed when a shell struck the automobile in which he and Commissar Regler were riding. Says Novelist Ernest Hemingway in his flattering preface: it might have been better for Regler if he had been killed too. He survived, but a steel splinter so nearly bisected him that the doctor who dressed the wound was able to push his hand completely through Regler's body. Author Regler escaped from France just before the Nazi invasion, is now in Mexico...
...images did flicker through Trotsky's injured brain last week, some of them must have been of those great days when War Commissar Leon Trotsky whipped the demoralized rabble of the crushed Imperial Army into a new Red Army, drove the Whites and their allies out of Russia; the proclaiming of the Third International when he hoped that world revolution was at hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin...