Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...potpourri of Shaviana keynoted by such statements as the following: The first principle of Socialism is equal income for all. . . . Every other system for distribution of wealth is unjust and illogical. . . . The Socialist experiment failed in Russia because the people were not prepared for it. ... England is today more communist than Soviet Russia...
...revelation with equanimity, Sir William nursed his suckling Scare and took it before a Conservative rally at Leamington, where he cried: "We are asked to put up with the subsidizing of crime by a Russian bank in this country. . . . There is a direct chain from the Russian bank to Communist agitators in all the great cities of this land. ... I have the most complete evidence...
Thus the Cabinet squelched several persistent committees of British bondholders who have recently petitioned for aid in dunning U. S. States which were once Confederate. A chuckle rippled across the Commons, as the sole Communist M. P., famed Shapurji Saklatvala, a swarthy Indian demanded: "Does not the Under Secretary think this another case where His Majesty's Government ought to send troops of occupation to protect British interests...
When votes were counted, last week, it was seen at first blush that not a single Communist had been returned and that the country had swung toward supporters of the Sacred Union Cabinet of Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré, savior of the Franc. The second blush would come seven days later, when Frenchmen will vote again in those constituencies where no candidate obtained a majority last week...
Throughout the Soviet Union it is a grim jest to say that neither the Voice of God nor that of the People can be heard above the silence of Comrade Josef Stalin. Always shabbily dressed, the Dictator prefers to dominate Russia from his unobtrusive post of Secretary of the Communist Party-the only political group permitted to exist. Even at party gatherings Secretary Stalin habitually sits in watchful silence on the back row of a crowded speakers' platform. Therefore when the man whose name means "Steel" suddenly chose to speak, last week, before the Central Committee and the Central...