Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John T. W. Newbold, sole Communist member of Parliament, was suspended by a vote...
...appears that the Communist spoke harshly of the chairman of a committee, one Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy, Conservative member for Northamptonshire. Fitzroy then called upon Newbold to withdraw. This angered the Laborites, who rebuked the Speaker for not having allowed Newbold to apologize. The Speaker, while thinking that " the gallant and noble member" (Fitzroy) had acted hastily, said he was obliged to put the question to the House. This was done, and the House was left " Communistless...
According to the Russian correspondent of The Morning Post, London daily, Nikolai Bukharin, Editor of the Pravda, Moscow communist daily, informed the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party and the Praesidum of the Third Internationale that certain ".comrades" had spent $13,750,000 in propaganda, for which there were no accounts or documents available...
...accuses Karl Radek, Chief of Publicity in the Soviet Government, of not having rendered account of large sums of money, with which he was instructed to subsidize Communist organizations in Egypt, Bulgaria, Turkey...
...wants to know what happened to $790,000 given to Jacques Sadoul, ex-captain in the French army, for the purpose of organizing communist mass movements in French colonies...