Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Communist Russian-language newspaper, Russky Golos, last week told volumes in one word. It was praising Lincoln's Gettysburg address, especially the "immortal thoughts" which it rendered "government of the people, from the people, and for the people...
...Russian word for "from" is iz, which can hardly be a misprint for chrez posredstvo, which is how the Russians would translate Lincoln...
Communists still don't understand that when Lincoln said "by the people" (Russian: chrez posredstvo naroda) he meant just that, and not the mystical, self-serving declaration of a ruling clique that its power derived, somehow, "from" the people...
Randolph Churchill, Winston's bumptious lecturer-son, got in more trouble with his new Lincoln. Last fortnight a wheel had come off while he was doing 50 in Indiana. This time the trouble was in Connecticut. He got a parking ticket; but that was fixed when it was discovered who he was-a guest of the city of Derby. Then he shot off toward Manhattan. A state trooper, who said it had taken him eight miles to catch up, stopped Randolph outside Westport, pinched him for doing 80. Trial...
...will be on the inside receiving brickbats, instead of outside throwing them. We must be alert and liberal in the sense of Abraham Lincoln's concept that the individual is the complex heart of society. We must not be a stuffy and pompous party...