Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That ardent Communist, M. Le Deputy Pioqemal, pounded furiously upon his desk in the Chamber, last week, thus sounding the familiar prelude to one of his eruptions...
...Trotsky. The descendant is Poet Max Eastman, 45, sometimes considered a dilettante radical, onetime editor of the brilliant but now defunct review, The Masses* and author of Since Lenin Died. Of this volume Comrade Trotsky wrote in his potent yesterdays: 'fallacious and mendacious . . . exploits single incidents of the [Communist] party discussion . . . perverts the meaning of facts." Since writing those lines Trotsky has been exiled to the remote vicinity of Chinese Turkestan because he dared to continue "party discussion" in a party which demands blind obedience. Last week, at Manhattan, Poet Max Eastman returned good for evil by making public...
Cabled despatches, possibly tampered with by the Soviet Censor, have uniformly declared that Trotsky left Moscow in the passive presence of a crowd which merely collected at the station, sang Communist songs, and wailed, "Oh how sad!" as his train chuffed...
...result of the debate hinged. Naturally enough, the greater part of the examples cited were taken from the relations between the United States and Spanish America where the present situation is so acute. But V. K. Kwong '29 introduced a divergent note by discussing at some length the recent Communist uprising in Nanking, China, and its attendant difficulties for American authorities...
...time the political trend has been toward the Left, but the electorate, while increasingly enamoured of more and more advanced social legislation, retains its poise, stability, and that deep and broad democracy which is bred in the Norwegian bone, a heritage from sturdy Vikings. Therefore since the Socialist and Communist parties achieved between them 61 of the 150 seats in the Storting, at the elections of last Fall, they have been given an opportunity, which flowered last week, of expounding and testing their theories from the part of Power. Cannily watching the situation and holding a salutary whip hand...