Word: proletarian
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...permanent structure housing Paris art exhibits of the highest class. From it visitors descend broad steps with the Eiffel Tower rising ahead of them across the Seine, on their left the massive German pavilion with its brooding Nazi eagle, on their right the flamboyant Soviet pavilion topped by excited proletarian figures, and before them a great basin of foaming fountains, flanked by assorted foreign pavilions. Massive-pillared Egypt is a heavy splash of deep red; Rumania scintillates with a faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving...
...methods. Italians will show off their nation-wide Dopolavoro ("After Work") organization with its traveling theatres, touring movie projection units and sport recreation centres of all sorts for Fascist workers. In Germany the similar organization has been copying the Italian model fast, outstripping it in the matter of proletarian pleasure cruise ships now slated to take the unprecedented number of 12.000 German toilers clear around to Tokyo in 1940 just to cheer German athletes in the Olympic Games. Announced Cianetti & Ley: "Our two labor fronts have agreed to consult each other before taking any international action, to recognize labor organizations...
Visiting U. S. intellectuals, emerging from recent tours of Leftist Spain, have stressed the present efficiency of native commanders and troops, declared they saw nothing of General Emilio Kleber (TIME, April 5), the hard-bitten proletarian warmaker dispatched from Moscow when it seemed Madrid was about to fall. Some have hopefully opined, "Kleber may have left Spain." Last week, according to United Press, General Kleber openly assumed command on the Huesca front northeast of Madrid. Same day Leftist war planes went into action, dueling above Huesca province in one of the great air battles of the war. At one time...
...sleepy southern French city of Béziers last week were billed Spain's three ranking matadors: Marcial Lalande, Domingo Ortega, Manolo Bienvenida. But Beziers Aficionados booed, hooted, threw bottles, for Béziers is stalwartly proletarian and the bulls came from a part of Spain held by Rightist General Franco. Not till the manager shouted that bulls' dislike of red is instinctive, not intellectual, did the crowd allow the corrida...
...lofty style Red Lin rolled off the speech-and no Chinese proletarian thought of holding against Red leaders the stuffy scholarship displayed. On the contrary this show of Scholarship was judged so likely to raise the kudos of Red Mao among the Chinese masses that strict censorship killed the story entirely out of all newsorgans controlled by the Nanking Government, and it was forbidden even to print that a Red had done anything so estimable as do homage to an Emperor of the glorious past. As a matter of curious Chinese fact, the Red Lin Po-chu of last week...