Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason for the intractable attitude of the Baldwin Administration is not difficult to see. The British conceive that the Poincaré Government as determined to force a change of Government in Germany, which at this time may put the Communist element into power. In such an eventuality it is considered that civil war would break out in Germany and that the Federal Government system would collapse. This would play directly into the hands of France, who would be able to seize the Rhine provinces as a protective measure. This state of affairs would be most unwelcome to Great Britain...
Marcel Cachin, Deputy and Leader of the French Communist Party, charged by the French Government with " crime against the internal security of the State," was released by the investigating magistrate, le Juge Jousselin, on the ground of insufficient evidence. The Government will, however, appeal against the judge's decision. Other charges are also likely to be brought against M. Cachin and his associates...
...doubtful that the Soviet promise to end anti-British propaganda means much, as the Communist Party, which drills and sends out the agitators to Turkey, Persia and the distant goal of British India, from the propaganda schools of Samarkand and Tashkent, is technically not the same as the Soviet Government. The British prestige in Asia is the first line of defense that any such combination must destroy, and that will take more than propaganda...
Guinta: "I am speaking for myself. We cannot allow Communist papers to carry on criminal propaganda. . . . You, Deputy Bombacci, asked whether you still enjoyed the rights of Italian citizenship. We reply that you do not, because all your actions prove you to be unworthy of that honor...
Friends of Communist editors in Italy who, when they find a Fascist bathing in a fountain, kill him like...