Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This bizarre half-truth was shrieked in Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army...
From remote, barbaric Alma Alta, on the distent rim of Russian Turkestan, Great Leo Davidovich Trotsky returned, last week, toward the civilized world. With him traveled his wife and son, glad to end a bitter exile (TIME, Jan. 30, 1928). But in European Communist centres it was feared that Trotsky's release from banishment was a trick and prophets croaked that he would be "accidentally" killed en route...
...Montevideo police and correspondents of the U. S. press dutifully reported that such shouters were "identified as belonging to a Communist group...
...Nations in Geneva, the Swindleress was dazzlingly present, offering and paying the unheard price of 25,000 francs ($975) for short feature articles for her paper by some of the leading journalists of Europe. Recently U. S. papers widely reprinted from La Gazette an elaborate exposé of a Communist plan to seize Paris. So craftily thickened was La Gazette's plot that but for a rival newspaper the swindle might have kept booming for months...
...among the strongest and wisest of her potent Socialist statesmen. During his previous administration (1916-22) Dr. Irigoyen introduced the secret ballot, and as a progressive legislator he stands honorably to the fore. On the other hand he does not hesitate to disperse unruly mobs, whether laborite or communist, with ruthless rifle fire...