Word: mm
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moscow, 10,000 Bolshevik children assembled before the jet black tomb of Lenin to take the "pledge of Leninism" or, in other words, to promise to support the dead Russian leader's principles. MM. Rykov, Trotzky, Kamenev, Bukharin?all Bolshecrats?spoke to the children. When War Lord Trotzky asked them if they were ready to sustain the doctrines, they replied: "We are always ready...
This means that the present Opposition has a majority of 20 over the parties faithful to Poincaré. Premier Poincaré is to remain in power until June 2, when the new Chamber of Deputies meets. The choice of a Premier to succeed "Papa" Poincaré lay between MM. Herriot and Briand. Briand is the more popular, but Herriot heads the largest party, the Radical-Socialist group (Bloc de Gauche). Many people thought that Poincaré would attempt to get together a small majority, French parliamentary practices permitting such odd procedure, but this is most unlikely...
Notables elected: MM. Poincaré, Herriot, Briand, Painlevé; Communists Marty and Cachin, the former of whom was convicted of treason and later pardoned; ex-Minister of the Interior Malvy, once accused by ex-Premier Clemenceau of treason...
...MM. Tshrdynzev and Kalinin, directors of the State Textile Trust, were condemned to death. Their crime was betraying State capitalism...
...Were MM. Fiquet and Juillard perplexed? Pas de tout. Fiquet had an inspiration-a zoning system. Let the children of the poor eat with their families from 12 to 2. Let the children of the middle-classes eat from 11:30 to 1:30. Sensible, intricate, flexible, the system to be evolved will pay obeisance to the chief gods of the French bureaucracy: omnipresent paternalism, involved elaboration of red tape, with a strong substratum of invaluable commonsense...