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...task of the Communist International. If we succeed in creating a mass Communist party there, half the European victory will have been achieved. We must not set too low a value on what is going on in England. We must organize a daily Communist paper and create a left flank of trades unions. We must set to work in the British colonies...
Moses, trim and aggressive, occasion ally unleashed his lightning wit, or gave a neat whip cut across the flank of an attacking Democrat. Smoot, the Mormon elder, tall and slender as a mast, with a voice like a wind murmuring among the halyards, went unostentatiously about his business. Fess, coming forward in a halting defense of his brother Ohioan, Daugherty, met the biting attack of the active, relentless Norris. While from the farthest cor ner, Magnus Johnson, in broad Swedish accent, vouched for the distress of the farmers and threatened, if he were re-elected next Fall...
...Nicholas, now a midshipman on the British cruiser Benbow. With Rumania, foreign policy follows the Queen. She planned a formal visit for herself and King Ferdinand in April, not only to discuss the marriage, but the possibility of closer and more confidential relations between the two Latin nations that flank the turbulent Balkans. The Italian Court sent the Rumanian monarchs a formal invitation, which was accepted...
...Hitler's abortive coup in Bavaria. Poincaré had already telegraphed the French Ambassador in Berlin that this was the sort of thing that France could not tolerate. The astute Ludendorff as military leader and the Irredentist Hitler as political leader of an intransigent Bavaria, threatened the right flank of any possible French " march to Berlin." Should such leaders overthrow the Reich, France would be bound to act. The French General Staff foresaw " the necessity for certain military measures to protect the French troops in the Ruhr." The first of these measures would be to straighten out the Ruhr...
Alexander Woollcott: "We had never before seen a marionette show where the strings were quite so palpable. Also, to those of us sitting on the flank, an occasional glimpse of the wire-pullers themselves was vouchsafed. And from time to time one saw a fine Italian hand...