Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker was William Zebulon Foster, famed U. S. Communist. He was speaking in Manhattan, where some 250 delegates to the Workers (Communist) party convention were about to nominate Comrade Foster for President of the U. S. His speech constituted a sort of premature acceptance oration...
Like any other politician, Candidate Foster was careful to omit none of his party's time-tested cliches. Another "tool of the Capitalists," he said, was Democrat Smith. The Workers party, he explained, was part of the Communist International. It was a revolutionary party. Its aim was to overthrow the capitalist order in the U. S. Capitalism bred war. Capitalism would involve the U. S. in the "next...
Presiding and directly representing the Third International sat Comrade Rykov, said to be a relative of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Alexei Ivanovich Rykov. To him the assembled agents reported their activities and successes of the past twelvemonth, particularly with reference to the establishment of "Communist Cells" or nuclei in the principal armies and navies of the world...
Thereafter English Comrade James Button claimed that 13 cells have been established in the British Navy; and French Comrade Barbrot not only credited himself and colleagues with a score of 14, but said that in case of need the Communist banner could be hoisted on no less than ten French warships...
...summer," when some 100 Austrians were killed and the Ministry of Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these may form an international Communist force in time of war. The Red Army of Soviet Russia cannot, admitted Chairman Rykov, attack the Capitalist powers of Europe with immediate prospect of success. Finally the agents were cautioned not to convey instructions to the Cells by circulars "which always fall into the hands of the police...