Word: radek
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Karl Berngardovich Radek, the greatest journalist in Soviet Russia, repeatedly in recent years the spokesman of Joseph Stalin, and in recent months so potent that Moscow correspondents were calling him "the Second Foreign Commissar," was admitted by the Soviet Commissariat of Justice last week to be in jail awaiting trial for his life. Famed Journalist Radek (né Sobelsohn) suddenly "disappeared'" last month and neither his paper Izvestia ("News"), the official daily of the Soviet Government, nor any other Moscow organ printed a line as to the whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such...
Bolshevik males who happen to dislike Journalist Radek and the small fringe of whiskers around his round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...usual, Journalist Radek was one smart jump ahead of his enemies. Just before he "disappeared" he managed to get printed in Izvestia, above his signature, a scorching editorial in which he flayed Trotsky and demanded Death for all "decaying-souled traitors." In this editorial Comrade Radek claimed that he personally sabotaged and foiled the Trotsky plots against Stalin, and this bold claim was expected last week to constitute Prisoner Radek's chief defense in court. It was typical of Soviet justice that, even after Radek's arrest had been admitted, Russian newspapers carried no details of the charges...
With the fate of Radek an official mystery, Communists and others recalled events of his recent fame. It was Radek who announced to Russia that "President Roosevelt as a private citizen has been a friend of the Soviet." The first public champagne toast to Mr. Roosevelt drunk by Soviet officials in Moscow was at a party organized by Radek to celebrate the appointment as U. S. Ambassador to Russia of William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to France. It was Journalist Radek who interviewed Mr. Bullitt in Moscow in 1932 and quoted him as saying: "In all the world...
Your country, Russia, is the only country which is marching forward." Communist critics hail as Radek's "masterpiece" his editorial, A Lesson In History For The Archbishop of Canterbury in which he sneered: "Most Reverend Thomas Davidson ... if you tell too many lies, the Communist International will appoint two of its experts to write a history of the archbishopric of Canterbury which will make you feel sorry for yourself. . . . [When Henry VIII] had cast his eye on a simpering miss named Anne Boleyn, the Archbishop of Canterbury decided that all the Church dogmas and all the rulings...