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Perched on a hillside amid drab housing projects and crumbling Victorian relics, lies London's cluttered Highgate Cemetery. There, in a single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet...
Died. Jean Longuet, 62, grandson of Karl Marx, friend and literary collaborator of Léon Blum, ardent pacifist, founder of the Socialist newspaper Le Populaire; of injuries received in an automobile accident; in Paris...
...said Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx-"father of modern socialism"-to the Moscow Government when it requested permission to transfer his grandfather's body from Highgate Cemetery, London, to the Red capital. In his refusal he stated that the Bolshevik interpretation of Karl Marx's doctrines was entirely wrong and he did not think that his grandfather would have liked his memory associated with it. Allegedly this is a great disappointment to the Bolshecrats, who had intended to spend $500,000 for the erection of a Marx Monument in Red Square, Moscow. On dit in Paris that...
...Jean Longuet's negative...
...conclusion, M. Longuet said, "We have had a reactionary election in France and expect to win a victory for the Socialists in the common election on May 24. The labor party in England is coming out of the election with increased power, as it is likewise in Germany. I have confidence that with a stronger Socialist party in France, Germany, and England there will be greater peace throughout the world...