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...former Communist journalist, Trotskyite anti-Stalinist (Russia 20 Years After); of a heart attack; in Mexico City. A member of the Communist International's first Congress in 1919, Serge was managing editor of its official theoretical organ, Communist International. He was jailed briefly in 1928 by the GPU, exiled to Siberia in 1933, released in 1936 following a hullabaloo by Europe's leading writers...
...search of the sweetest possible name for its secret police, the Kremlin has given that dread body its fourth title since December 1917. Once the CHEKA (Extraordinary Commission), then GPU (State Political Management), 1922-34, then NKVD (People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 1934-46, it is now MGB (Ministry of State Security). Said the proverb-loving Russians on hearing the news: Khren ne slashche redki ("Horseradish is not sweeter than radish...
Some time later, Kravchenko got a glimpse of the "horrors of collectivization." In one village, "guarded by GPU soldiers with drawn revolvers, stood about twenty peasants. . . . A few of them were weeping. The others stood there sullen, resigned, hopeless. So this was 'liquidation of the kulaks as a class'! A lot of simple peasants being torn from their native soil, stripped of all their worldly belongings...
Pink, squat Jacques Duclos, 50, veteran of the GPU, is No. 2 Communist. Last week he blared the party's new line: "We are the champions and defenders of the middle class." Other Communist leaders: ruddy, rotund Florimond Bonte, 55, clerk's son and charter party member, is the Communist foreign affairs expert. Tall, devious Andre Marty, 59, an International Brigadier in the Spanish Civil War, is the party hellion...
...London, Poland's ex-Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk indicated his terms for joining the new Government: the Russians must halt all deportations, withdraw their secret police (the NKVD, formerly the GPU), release all Poles from concentration camps, freely admit the foreign press to Poland, grant complete political freedom to all Poles (presumably including Russia's avowed enemies), guarantee Allied super vision of Polish elections. Addressing the House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden bluntly warned Moscow that the British Government regarded the present Warsaw Poles with extreme distaste, expected something much more decent to emerge...