Word: communists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gordon Hewart, Baron Hewart of Bury. Mr. Chief Justice William Howard Taft of the U. S. Supreme Court introduced him. Lord Chief Justice Hewart denounced bureaucracy in government and then, once a newspaperman himself, loudly decried current tendencies in the press as menaces to society even graver than Communist propaganda. Chief Justice Taft courteously and instructively surveyed the English origins...
...Graft? Gardner Jackson and the Defense Committee had another grievance. Last January, U. S. Communists reported to Moscow that they had raised $500,000 for "the Sacco-Vanzetti relief work." Last week the Defense Committee revealed that it had received only $300 from Communist sources. Where did the rest go? The Defense Committee had some big bills...
Black secrecy had reigned for ten days within the thick, awesome walls of the Kremlin. There the Central Executive Committee of the Communist party was in the progress of expelling Comrade Lev Davidovitch Trotzky from its ranks -this in a country where the Communist Party is the only one per mitted to exist. Comrade Trotzky, creator of the Red Army and one-time chief defender of the Communist Fatherland, was assumedly being read out of the party councils-and with him Comrade Gregory Zinoviev, zealous apostle of "The World Revolution of the World Proletariat." The struggle between these two fiery...
...Trotzky and Zinoviev from the Central Committee and to admonish them with severe blame and a warning." What did these so contradictory decisions portend? Soon the dean of U. S. correspondents at Moscow, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, cabled an opinion: "All signs now indicate that the Communist Party has emerged stronger than ever from what appeared to be the gravest crisis in its history. . . . Here is the real secret of the events of the past week. The stage was all set for a split-one might almost say it actually occurred-and then suddenly, almost miraculously...
Resignation. Addressing himself to "The Chinese People" General Chiang reviewed in his resignation the initial brilliant success of the nationalist movement and its present heartbreaking disintegration. "Our revolution got into difficulties because of communism," declared General Chiang, and then mourned that his own ruthless anti-communist activities had been interpreted by many Nationalists as aggrandizement so that "My nationalist comrades subsequently in almost all cases lost confidence...