Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Berlin last week, the May Day methods of the police (TIME, May 13) were bitterly assailed. Communist sympathizers pointed out that during the four days' rioting that followed Bloody May Day. only one policeman received a bullet wound-an accidental wound inflicted by himself. Of the rioters, 27 were killed, more than 100 injured. Scores of non-Communist shopkeepers from the riotous Berlin districts said that they did not see a single civilian shoot at the police...
According to the Zinoviev account of Berlin's May Day, it was the Social Democrats in the German Government who precipitated the police attack, not the Communists who invited it. The Social Democrats, boasted Bomb Boy Zinoviev, fear that the Communist Party is growing in Germany, fear it will get out of hand...
...magnificent opportunity for Herr Zörgiebel to display to French and English observers the legitimate uses of his excessively military police department, actually a little army. Systematically his men attacked the Communist barricades with clubs and fire hoses, then with pistols, then with rifles, finally with machine guns, armored cars. Airplanes flew overhead, spotting snipers...
Small bands of "Red Front Fighters," as the organized Communists called themselves, made sudden sallies against the police, darting out from grimy alleys, overturning trucks and taxicabs until police bullets exploded the gas tanks of the upended vehicles. Communist girls were observed among the "Red Front Fighters" with red handkerchiefs round their heads, flashing knives in their hands...
Dynamic A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, who lately clasped hands with Edward of Wales, announced himself a Socialist now and no longer a Communist, and was forthwith rebuked by a scathing resolution of the Communist Party (TIME, April 29), last week roared at a union meeting of Welsh miners : "I have fought as no one else has fought to protect the Communists! I have been reviled for it. I have fed them and clothed them−and I say now they are the most dishonorable set of men I have ever had dealings with...