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Last week the darkness proved deeper than even the Russians supposed. High-ranking officers in the Red army were reported to be neglecting their Marx and Lenin, and the official army paper Red Star felt obliged to issue a warning. "Soviet generals," it announced, "who fail to pursue such studies will lose out in assignments to responsible military posts." In Britain, where the Lords this time were debating Communist aggression in Western Europe, Lord Pakenham had a word of enlightenment about that as well...
...TIME'S first reference to him called him Ivan Stalin; TIME in 1924 could not figure out whether Rykov or Kamenev was the best bet to succeed Lenin...
...Malicious Childhood. Eisenstein developed a theory to explain these unfortunate deviations toward bourgeois art. They were, said he, tag ends of ideas and impressions left over from pre-revolutionary childhood. Eisenstein's sage advice to Soviet artists: "We must master the Lenin-Stalin method of perception . . . to overcome all remnants or survivals of former notions which . . . are obstinately and maliciously attempting to infiltrate into our works as soon as our creative vigilance is weakened even for only a single moment...
Many of the accounts of Emmet's life have been lost; others have only recently turned up. What the records show seems chiefly pathetic to readers schooled in the calculating and brilliant revolutionary techniques of Marx and Lenin. Unlike those men, Robert Emmet lived, from boyhood to scaffold, in a world of chivalrous, humanitarian dreams-a lovable but fatal hallucination which Author Landreth indignantly blames on Emmet's father, a conventional Protestant doctor of English extraction who didn't let little Robert air his views when grownups were conversing. After several years at Dublin's Trinity...