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...huge crowd* milled about in seeming indifference. Whiffs of smoke ascended from many pipes. Occasional sporadic laughter was heard as jokes were loosed. Felix Dzerzhinsky, respected, feared, was never popular...
When Death came to Felix Dzerzhinsky he was in the midst of a campaign to reorganize and educate industrially the whole body of Soviet workers (TIME, July 19). Perhaps only he possessed the granite will and the steel-trap tenacity requisite for. this titan's task. Than his death, no heavier loss to economic Russia can be imagined...
Vladimir Ilich Lenin bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...
...last, softspoken, pale, bloodless, Felix Dzerzhinsky found that he had bled the enemies of Bolshevism whiter than his own prison-bleached forehead. He became convinced that the "Cheka" was no longer needed, saw to it that several of his incurably bloodthirsty agents were quietly murdered, "for the ultimate good and safety of the state," and focused his own sleepless energies on the economic problems of Soviet government...
Simultaneously his Uncle Paul, brother of his father Felix, was receiving an honorary degree from the University of Heidelberg...