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...Karl Radek in Stockholm: "The position is arch-complicated and arch-interesting." But with Kerensky out of the way and Lenin and his Bolsheviks in charge at last, his discursive letters shrink to notes and telegrams, their subjects swell to dictatorial size: "Advise you send them six months forced labour in mines. . . . Today at all costs Rostov must be taken. . . . Mobilize all forces. Immediately set afoot everything for catching the culprits. Stop all motor cars and detain them for triple checking." At the same time characteristically the little old pamphleteer who had spent so much of his exile dreaming...
Meanwhile he turned out well-phrased records of his adventures, was a Socialist member of Parliament, spent two months in jail for rioting, made a scornful speech which inspired Shaw in writing Arms and the Man, organized the Scottish Labour Party, built up close friendships with William Morris, Joseph Conrad, Hudson and Parnell. He disguised himself as a doctor, traveled to Morocco in 1897 in search of a forbidden city, was imprisoned, returned to Scotland to rebuild his estate, covered South America buying horses and cattle during the War, helped found the Scottish Nationalist Party...
With Summer H. Schlichter, professor of Business Economics, as their chairman, members of the Labour Relations Committee of the Student Union stage their first big party here tonight in a three-cornered debate on the maritime strike...
...speaker also praised the Union for its work in combating war, bringing social issues into the classroom, and rousing labour interest...
...From Love's Labour's Lost...