Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Major General Ilya Gaponenko, 50, onetime political commissar...
July 14. Lieut. General Ivan Konnov, 51, onetime leading army political commissar...
Last week Manhattan's anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader, published more evidence of Mann's political activities. It was a letter to Stalin's cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...
...when the Russian Revolution broke out, they were living in an $18-a-month apartment in Manhattan. Within a few months, the itinerant revolutionary was Red Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, then organizer of the Red army and Lenin's No. 1 man, incorruptible, sarcastic, ruthless. Ten years later, having lost in the struggle for power with Joseph Stalin, Trotsky and his wife were chased out of Russia. They finally found refuge in Mexico where, in 1940, a Stalinist agent drove a pickax into the brain of Leon Trotsky...
...good-naturedly feuded with son Heywood, who thumb-nailed her as a "confirmed reactionary and a bridge player." Predicted Broun: "When the revolution comes, it's going to be a tough problem what to do with her. We will either have to shoot her or make her a commissar. In the meantime, we still dine together...