Word: commune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showing the ruins of the Palace of the Tuileries, the Ministry of Finance, the Vendome Column, City Hall, the Louvre Library, the Palace of the Legion of Honor and other buildings are now on public view in Widener Library. Elaborate street barricades manned by the soldiers of the Paris Commune are also pictured...
...years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli and of the world...
Since Marx and Engels, in the Communist Manifesto of 1848, proclaimed that "a spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism," Marxists had always, in theory, worked for world revolution. The First International had been broken after the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871; the Second (Socialist) International had been irreparably weakened by World War I; but neither had committed suicide. And the Third International was a creation of modern Russia's founder, Stalin's master, Nikolai Lenin. Summoned by that greatest of revolutionaries, 51 delegates from 30 countries, including the U.S., met in Moscow in March...
Died. (Etienne) Alexandre Millerand, 84, onetime President of France (1920-24) ; in Versailles. Son of a wine merchant active in the Commune of '48, he made a reputation as a defender of labor, became the first Socialist Cabinet member...
...noon the Del Commune had traveled only three miles. Her officers took counsel, decided to give up, pointed her battered nose back to Dubuque. When she crept into harbor she was sheathed with snow...