Word: kollantay
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...early days of Bolshevism, leading women Communists tended to be of two kinds: either freewheeling intellectuals like the handsome and dashing Aleksandra Kollantay, sometime U.S.S.R. ambassador, who advocated free speech and practiced free love, or professional revolutionaries like somber, spectacled Rozalia Zemliachka, the civil war liquidator of the Crimea, and the white-haired oldtime Chekist Elena Stasova. Although Stalin liquidated thousands of male members of the party apparatus in the great 1937 purges, he left these and other top women alone. But Stalin did not trust old revolutionaries, men or women...
When neighboring King Gustaf V receives in Stockholm no precedence is given to the Soviet Minister, beauteous Alexandra Kollantay. Quite as though she were a man, Comrade Kollantay stands back until diplomats who have been longer at Stockholm than she bow before Sweden's Gustaf. Not only has Comrade Kollantay never claimed the right of "ladies first," but like other Old Bolsheviks she considers ''lady" a repulsive epithet. Very much a lady is the first woman ever appointed a U. S. Minister. Last week in Copenhagen the rule that senior diplomats always take precedence was waived...
...unpronounceable Communist member of the British Parliament, was likewise debarred. And another Countess--in her own eyes more sinned against than sinning--discovered that on occasion moral turpitude could be made an admirable slogan for immigration authorities. The latest guest unwelcome to official United States is Mme. Alexandra Kollantay, whose morals may be as pure as snow but whose politics are not a accordance with those of the Republican administration. In spite of the fact that she does not propose to linger here being on her way to take up her duties as Soviet Minister to Mexico--Secretary Kellog...
| 1 |