Word: proletariats
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Gandhi & Reds. Communist leaders in Bombay took the line last week that "Gandhi betrayed the proletariat by his pact with Irwin!" It is true that Mr. Gandhi arranged the release of his own non-violent demonstrators first; but he continued last week to plead with the British for release of even violent, proletarian agitators. This, to the Communists, was no excuse. They greeted the little brown man in Bombay with roars of "Down with Gandhi! Down with his Nationalist Party! Down with British Imperialism...
...appointment calendar is always full of things for him to do at three and four a. m. His temper is easily aroused, but he appears to take sincere pride in his work. His job, as he conceives it, is to "Make the World Safe for the World Proletariat." His attitude is as universal as that of the Pope. Wherever upon the face of the earth Capitalism can be undone, in whole or in part, there is the place for an agent...
...which arouse our admiration." Bolshevism: "Our trade relations with Russia are of economic value to us, but they do not affect our internal policies. Fascism and Bolshevism are still at the antipodes, both in theory and practice. Proof of this is afforded by appeals, constantly sent out to the proletariat of the world by the Third International at Mos cow to fight Fascism to death." Idleness. "Unemployment is causing anxiety in Italy as in all other countries. We have a half-million unemployed at the present time, of whom 100,000 are women and 250,000 come from agriculture...
Death to Enemies of the Proletariat...
...theme of the Schakhta Trial, broadcast two years ago, was merely sabotage. In that trial and again last week the son of one of the accused passionately denounced his father as a traitor to the proletariat. During the Schakhta proceedings several of the accused pleaded "not guilty," defended themselves wildly, vainly in a dramatic radio dialog with Prosecutor Krylenko, who beat down their defense as a tiger claws to bits a bleating sheep. Last week however all the star prisoners-six of the eight accused-expressed a desire to plead guilty, entered the courtroom with bulky, manuscript confessions which they...