Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...calm. From north and south, east and west of Germany reports filtered in telling tales of violence. Several persons were killed, many were more or less seriously injured. In Berlin, the same story was told; but it fell to the Communists to supply a note of humor. The Communist Red Cat or ganization paraded the city in motor trucks singing their "Miau-Miau" song...
...course of the trial, it was established that the Russian Embassy in Berlin has been used as headquarters for Red revolutionaries, that vast quantities of typhus germs had been bought for the purpose of starting an epidemic, that many highly placed Germans had been marked down for assassination, that complete plans for a terrorist movement had been matured...
Newspapers of all political creeds, except of course the Communist, ap proved the finding of the Court, warned the country of the ever-pres ent Red peril, urged severe measures for the public safety...
Comment. M. Bukharin, editor of the Pravda, explains this metamorpho sis of Communism as due to a new-conception of the means of attain ing Socialism, meaning that, in opposition to Red terrorism, "the proletarian State must get a hold upon the chief commanding heights of industry and commerce; then, by means of commercial competition, conquer private capitalism, and the quicker we develop our economic re sources the sooner we shall accomplish our socialistic aims...
...plot is still going on, in terest continues to the end. The writer's attempt to be literary is cen tred on his similes ? one on nearly every page. The prize examples: "He carried his left hand upright like a bouquet and through the bandages a spot of red stood out like a scarlet snow-flower on a mountain slope...