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...collected funds, tossed bouquets of red carnations at the guest of honor, the big meeting sang La Marseillaise (six times), the Internationale (four times). The comrades listened to political speeches by Acting Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who sweated profusely, and ex-Party Secretary Marcel Cachin, who declaimed: "Thorez, like Lenin, is always ahead of the people." Then Thorez walked into the spotlight. He began softly, ended thunderously. His speech was organized around four catch phrases which constituted a program for French Communists in the next few months...
...crisis almost as acute as that threatening Premier Pierlot. In Rome, the Socialists and Communists (whose Naples membership had bounded from 2,000 to 60,000 in a year) staged a huge public rally. Up the Palatine Hill trudged thousands of men & women, carrying big pictures of Stalin and Lenin and Hammer-&-Sickle flags. Soon the Domitian Stadium (some 175 yds. long by 52 wide) was jammed with 25,000 red-shirted demonstrators. Most of them were middleclass...
Foreign Minister Pilet-Golaz soon resigned. Said the Basel National Zeitung, organ of his own Radical Democratic Party: "Why have we been so slow? . . ." Said the socialist Berner Tagwacht: "Let . . . the Soviet Union not forget that it was Switzerland that sheltered Lenin and other Russian revolutionaries until...
...Russia celebrated the anniversary of history's greatest social revolution this week. It was the most important of the 27 anniversaries that have been solemnized thus far. For the first time since Lenin opened the first session of the Supreme Soviet (and a new chapter in human history) with the casual words: "We shall now proceed with the organization of the socialist state," Russia had ceased to be a defensive power. It had passed over to the offensive. In retrospect it was clear that the revolution was the most important fact of World War I. Russia's emergence...
...Premier William John Patterson, Liberal, who did not know his Lenin, attacked the C.C.F. for confusing "socialism and cooperation by making them appear synonymous." Then he and his fellow Liberals voted with the C.C.F. for the new bill. This was smart politics, for nowhere in Canada are cooperatives so popular and successful as in Saskatchewan, where 1,000 societies with 250,000 members own and operate their own businesses. Among the most unusual: Regina's Funeral Cooperative Association Ltd., organized July 1, 1943 to combat the high cost of dying...