Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...French Government despatched a courteous summons last the week to arch the arch Communist of Royalist France ? and of the respectively, Royalist editor Leon Daudet newspaper L'Action Française and the leading Communist Deputy, Marcel Cachin. These gentlemen were told that they must at once set a time convenient to themselves to serve jail sentences which have hung over each for almost two years. Since their was crimes were extended by political, French this custom ? courtesy based on the theory that it is foolish to make martyrs out of men whose crime is too much talk against...
...Communist Cachin, lacking a sense of humor, called a meeting of Communist leaders in Paris. There a dozen or more speakers breathed defiance, typically as follows...
...jaded, world-traveled Correspondent Walter Duranty of the New York Times who thus described last week with sly enthusiasm the notorious Madame Borodin, wife of the Soviet Russian emissary to Chinese Communists, Michael Borodin. When Mme. Borodin was captured by Chinese anti-Communist troops near Shanghai (TIME, March 21), many a non-Communist thought, "Serves her right!" What sort of treatment has Mme. Borodin received? She told last week in the bare, white-walled waiting-room of a prison at Peking...
...Chinese soldiers who captured me handcuffed my wrists and put me in a freight car. . . . "When they led me up before Chang Tsung-chang [minor anti-Communist War Lord] I said: 'Well, you have searched my baggage and found nothing [incriminating], so why hold me a prisoner...
...Josef Stalin with all the moving fire of his famed spellbinding prowess. He urged that warlike "reprisals" be taken against Britain, demanded that pressure be brought on the Chinese Nationalists to proclaim a Chinese Soviet Republic, and generally flayed Dictator Stalin for not pushing with sufficient energy the Communist program of world revolution. Amid the stress of last week, the Comintern dared not antagonize Comrade Trotzky further than by passing a stiff resolution of censure against...