Word: proletariats
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...fears of Finns as well as Paasikivi understood the fears and foibles of Russians. Mme. Kollontay's father was a Czarist general, her mother a farming Finn; her childhood summers were spent among the birch-crowded lakes of southeastern Finland. Her first book was on the Finnish proletariat. In her quiet study in the Soviet legation, the two old diplomats could talk of peace in tranquil tones...
...born in 1876 -five years after Bismarck founded the Second Reich; six years after Italy achieved unification by Vittorio Emanuele II's seizing Rome from the Papacy, and Pope Pius IX immured himself in his last possession as "the prisoner of the Vatican"; five years after the Paris proletariat bloodily introduced Europe to a new form of the state-the commune or soviet. The consequences of these events were to mark the highlights of the career of Eugenio Pacelli and of the world...
...Giggling Proletariat. Cinema houses stopped charging admission. At bars, all drinks were on the house. At banks, tellers gave away packs of $100 bills. Free love was freer than ever. The Mayor resigned to play with toy electric trains...
...effects of happiness on Manhattan were catastrophic. Cops and firemen gaily abandoned night sticks and fire hoses to be pursued by blonde maenads. As the proletariat began to giggle and desert its jobs, subways, trains, busses, elevateds and elevators stopped running. Lights blinked and went out. Since gravity was found to be almost as essential to the flow of food as to the flow of water, famine threatened...
That Russia's philosophy has changed from one of championing proletariat revolt to one solely for the betterment of the fatherland, was the view expressed by R. C. Macridis, teaching fellow in Government. He predicts that the Soviet's party line will change when the United States and England are exhausted, revealing the old Czarist idea of expansion...