Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First thunders against the Ronoto came, last week, in an announcement from the Ministry of Justice. This states that the Imperial Police had arrested in a secret raid 1,013 Opposition sympathizers of whom 26 were being held as Communists, on charges of attempting to subvert the state and throne. Followed at once, from the Ministry of Home Affairs, an order for the dissolution of the Ronoto, on the ground that it had become a Communist organization. In Japan, as everyone knows, the practice or preaching of Communism has been illegal since 1923. Suppressed along with the Ronoto, last week...
...file with the People's court three months before its birth the name of the father. If he does not protest it is taken for granted that he is the father and he is held, equally with the mother, responsible for the child's support. . . . The original Communist theory that the State should be responsible for children has been abandoned. It is still held [only] by such champions of free love as Alexandra Kollontai . . . now [Soviet] Minister to Norway (TIME...
Government. "The Government of Russia is in some ways organized like that of New York City," declares Mr. Lee. "Stalin, as the head of the Communist Party, is the 'Charlie Murphy' of Russia, and he has many of the characteristics of the late Mr. Murphy, the chief of them being that he works silently and away from the public gaze. . . . The immediate destiny of Russia is in his hands...
...Novelist Dreiser has led him into such self-contradictions as are contained in the following statements: 1) "I believe that in the main the Russian people are satisfied with the Soviet mechanism, and that they think it is perfecting itself daily," but 2) "There is a dictatorship of the Communist Party. ... All over Russia you find a kind of terror of the Communists, and what they may do in case you do not do or talk or even think as they...
When balloting for the Senate was complete, Marshal Pilsudski was found to have an even greater plurality of supporters than in the Sejm. No communist senator was elected...