Word: communist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Conflicts between Socialists and Communists took place in Paris at two meetings. At one, Millionaire Deputy Leon Blum, Socialist, was hit in the face by a wine glass and knocked practically senseless. Several of M. Blum's colleagues were also roughly treated. A Communist, armed with the legbone of an ox, stamped around the meeting room, shouted that he wanted "the whole world to bleed...
...Communists. With the usual fanfaronade of red talk and red flags, the Communists were prompt to nominate one Comrade Thalmann as their candidate for the Presidency but, as far as could be discovered from despatches, no anti-Communist was worrying...
...Count Karolyi is not a communist. Before the end of the War, he was appointed Premier of Hungary by Emperor Charles. He then allowed a Republic to be formed and became, in January, 1919, its first President. He surrounded himself with a group of Radicals, some of whom, a few months later, overthrew him and set up a Communist state under Bela Kun. Count Karolyi then retired from Hungary. When the present reactionary government under Admiral Horthy came into power, his exile was confirmed as a political measure...
...Trotzky for many years was not a Bolshevist at all; then he became one at intervals and finally relapsed into his original anti-Bolshevism." Thus said Grigori Zinoviev, boss of the Third (Communist) Internationale, ex-War Lord Trotzky's most intractable...
...Government published official statistics showing that the number of adult members of the Communist Party is 699,679. Zinoviev reflected that there are 132,000,453 people in the Russian Union living on 7,041,120 square miles...