Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tempestuous Asiatic Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. and ten members of his mission had signed and posted a letter to President Coolidge requesting the immediate recognition by the U.S. of the U. S. S. R. (Union of Socialist Soviet Republics). Previously President William Francis of the Chicago Y.M.C.A.-no Communist-had demanded the resignation of Mr. Eddy from the Y.M.C.A. At Moscow, fearless Sherwood Eddy had debated the existence of God before a great gathering of Atheists. A Chicago Tribune correspondent, shocked, cabled lurid rumors of Mr. Eddy's Communist leanings. Last week Sherwood Eddy refuted this heresy, declared...
Power. Joseph Stalin now rules as the undisputed dictator of Soviet Russia. During the past twelve-month he has demonstrated his control of the Communist Party and the Government by reducing to political vassalage or inconsequence no less than six of Lenin's most potent disciples: Trotsky, Zinoviev, Radek, Sokolnikov, Lashe-vich and Kamenev. The "new triumvirate" are: 1) Joseph Dzhugashvili "Stalin"- political "boss" par excellence, nominally only Secretary General of the Communist Party; 2) Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissars (i. e. "Premier"). 3) B. B. Quibe-schev, successor to the late...
Religion. The State no longer interferes with the right of adults to worship or believe as they please. All members of the Communist Party, the political oligarchy which governs Russia, must however profess total atheism...
Chaos flung engulfing wings over China last week. In their shadow Anarchy gibbered. The Chinese Communist tide, welling upward from Canton (TIME, Sept. 6), gained undisputed headway at last. During the week the one hundred million Chinese who dwell in the Yangtze River valley found themselves in the power of the Cantonese Communist Super-Tuchun Chang Kaishek. The Great Powers, anxious, perturbed, despatched a total of 40 warships up the Yangtze to protect their nationals...
...sedition for publishing in the Worker's Weekly an article appealing to British soldiers, sailors and airmen not to fire upon British workmen, should their officers ever order them to do so. Sir Patrick, as Attorney General ordered the charge against Mr. Campbell withdrawn. At once the Communist sheetlets began publicly to rejoice that the Government is at last acting as a Labor Government should." In vain, Sir Patrick protested that Mr. Campbell was only acting editor" of the Worker's Weekly, that he was a citizen of the U. S., and that his distinguished War service...