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...Worry of the Future." Lenin organized not a people's but a plotter's revolution. One night, eight months after the February revolution, his men seized the key points in Petrograd. They grabbed the telegraph office in order to "telegraph the revolution to the provinces." Soon afterwards, a Lettish regiment (controlled by the Bolshevik Party) and the sailors of Kronstadt dispersed the freely elected Constituent Assembly in which his Bolsheviks had only a 26% minority...
...they had for 340 years, the Yeomen of the Guard, in white Elizabethan ruffs, flat hats with rosettes, and red-&-gold uniforms, poked tasseled halberds into corners of Westminster cellars, in the traditional "search" for conspiratorial descendants of Catholic Plotter Guy Fawkes...
...stronger ones to follow." The subcommittee (Australia, Poland, France, China and Brazil) went along with the U.S.-British view that Franco was not a "threat to peace" in the sense that he planned attack. They went along, too, with the Russian view that Franco had been an Axis plotter and that the very existence of such a government constituted a "potential" menace...
Although this made Attorney General Kenny titular head of the state Democrats, and automatically a plotter for Warren's downfall, he got along well with the Governor. With his usual unorthodoxy he had crossed party lines to back Warren in a previous campaign...
...Landsberg, with the help of Rudolf Hess, he wrote Mein Kampf (My Struggle}. Seldom has a plotter set forth his purposes in plainer language or more explicit detail. The book was badly organized, but in it were the plans for Hitler's aggression against Germany and the rest of the world. The intellectuals contented themselves with laughing at Hitler's ideas and correcting his literary style...