Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Lodge, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, defended the refusal of the Administration to recognize the Soviet regime in Russia. He read portions of a 30,000 word document to show that every important official of the Soviet Government, except Tchichernin is a member of the Communist Party, which engages in revolutionary propaganda in this country. Senator Borah took up the cudgels in defense of the Soviet Government, declaring that the time had come for recognition, and asserting that there was ample precedent for recognizing Russia since we had recognized the revolutionary government of France in the 18th Century...
...Senators, notably Senator Borah of Idaho, asserted that the editorial in question was not conclusive evidence. They pointed out that the Third Internationale is a body with membership from over 50 nations, although its seat is in Moscow, and that even if it be chiefly supported by the Communist Party, that Party is not the Russian Government. Mr. Borah went on to point out that neither Lenin nor Trotsky attended the meeting of the Third Internationale held immediately after the Izvestia, editorial was published...
...Vermont. He said: "No one who has carefully observed the tortuous course of the Soviet regime in Russia, with respect to both its foreign policies and domestic affairs, can entertain any sensible doubt that Secretary Hughes is entirely correct in his contention that the Soviet Government, the Russian Communist (Bolshevist) Party and the Communist (or Third) Internationale are in reality three phases of one movement. The interlocking directorates of the three, together with the spiritual identity manifested by an unbroken and unfaltering unison of avowal and of practice, conclusively prove that the interrelationship is not casual or accidental or unimportant...
...Humanité, Communist journal, praised the jury...
...Russia as elsewhere there are editors who feel pride in their work. The Pravda, an organ of the Communist Party, lent ear to strife within the party. It published criticisms of the Central Committee and attacks on the critics. The Central Committee did not like this impartiality of the Party's organ. Zinoviev, Chairman of the Third Internationale, ordered that all articles bearing on strife within the Party be submitted to him. Konstantinov, the editor, sent 100 manuscripts. Zinoviev returned four of them for publication. Konstantinov protested. Zinoviev ordered. Konstantinov resigned...