Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Asquith, Liberal candiate for Paisley, had a rough time in his constituency, and was persistently shouted down. The anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation broke up one meeting, which Mr. Asquith was with difficulty addressing, by singing The Red Flag and booing. The ex-Premier did, however, manage to reaffirm Liberal support for the League of Nations...
...Plymouth, had a busy time with the hecklers. At one meeting came an impertinent remark from a man which Lady Astor cut short with: "Don't be cheeky, or I will knock that pipe out of your mouth." On another occasion she answered defiantly her Socialist and Communist hecklers with: "I am not going to haul down the Union Jack for the Red flag. It is all very well to say we got our money from the slums. I offer anyone ?500 (about $2,175) if he can find any slums which Lord Astor owns." She sard...
...general situation in unoccupied Germany was one of indescribable chaos. From almost every corner of the Vaterland came news of food riots, Communist revolts, rival clashes, many people killed and injured...
...this lack of justice I attribute much of communism and bolshevism which exists in this country today. To deny a communist the right of free speech in the street, or the privilege of marching down the street waving a red flag at the head of a column, only aggravates an evil. I am not a communist or a bolshevist, but I am sure that persecution only gives strength to these orders. In England there are far fewer of these elements than there are in this country, yet there the red flag to waved freely and the stump used often. England...
...nutshell, Russia will repay its debts to France, providing she can obtain at least a ten-year moratoriurm and credits for the promotion of economic reconstruction. She will refrain from supporting Communist propaganda in France and will restore in part the property of French citizens which was nationalized when the Bolsheviki seized power in 1917. The part that the Soviet Government desires to retain as national property will be paid for in various ways, such as by concession grants, principally in oil, a commodity which France lacks. All this is made dependent upon recognition of Russia by France...