Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trades Union Hall, Moscow, a huge blood-red disc above the stage, bearing the Hammer and Sickle, emblems of Soviet Russia, was hung. A vast crowd surged- peasants in blouses, urban workers in tight, shoddy store clothes. They had come to hear the first public speech in four months by Russia's greatest orator, famed Leon Trotzky. All knew that M. Trotzky had been silent perforce, following the crushing of his section of the Communist party by Dictator Josef Stalin (TIME, Oct. 25). When Comrade Trotzky slipped upon the stage last week, pale, wiry, magnetic, there was stamping, applause...
Soon Germany collapsed; and there began intervention in Russia by the Great Powers, assisting the "White Russian" or reactionary Tsarist commanders: Kolchak,* Denikin, Yudenich and Wrangel. This at last pushed the Bolsheviki so close to the wall that they began the "Red Terror...
...this year War Minister Leon Trotzky had built up the "Red Army" sufficiently to harass and wear down the "White Armies" to vanishing white hopes. Denikin was driven from Ekaterinodar and fled to Constantinople. Baron Wrangel retreated to Sevastopol, lost it, and likewise fled-to turn up recently in Belgium, still "White" (TIME, Dec. 27). The "Red Terror," a series of extraordinary measures resorted to in time of stress, crystallized into the still active Soviet secret police...
...idea was born with hearing that Commander Francesco da Pinedo had successfully flown to South America. Another Important usage of the airplane was expected, i.e., in carrying cardinals to the papal election. Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...
...case of a forced landing, a red carpet quickly spread would do for a cardinal, but would not prevent the Pope from breaking a tradition of the world's most potent Tradition...