Word: reed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Letters section of TIME, Nov. 16, Mr. Dawson P. Adams claimed that John Reed, Harvard alumnus and one of the first American Communists, is buried in the Red Square at Moscow "in a grassy terrace on one side of Lenin's tomb." According to you, Mr. William C. Bullitt, first U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union and now Ambassador to France, denied this and said that Reed's ashes were interred behind a plaque in the Kremlin wall...
When I was in the U.S.S.R. in 1932 I personally visited Reed's grave near Lenin's tomb and saw the headstone on it. I have carefully checked up to find out if there has been any change since that time. I can now state with certainty that there has not been; and that therefore Mr. Adams is right and Mr. Bullitt wrong...
Harvard Alumni John Reed Committee New York City
David B. Lawrence; Torbert H. Macdonald; Frederick M. Maclsaac; Douglas Mercer; Robert O. Miller; Lloyd Mills, Jr.; James M. E. Mixter; Vincent L. Murphy; George R. Osgood, Jr.; William T. Pace; Joseph C. Peden; Peter E. Pratt; Edward P. Prince; Philip L. Reed, Jr.; Matthew D. R. Riddell; Edward P. Roberts; Gerald P. Roeser; James A. Rousmaniere; Edward Rubin; David P. Sheppard; Philip C. Starr; Kenneth W. Sterling; Clifton D. Stevens; John H. Waite, Jr.; Lester H. Watson; Herbert F. Welsh; Roger L. Werner; and Hamilton H. Wood...
Largely because the French people have never been able to take seriously a politician whose middle name they believe to be Casimir, the disorganized body of Right-minded Frenchmen with fascist leanings have found Colonel François "Casimir" de la Rocque a weak reed to lean on. In recent months a much more potent fascist has appeared in the person of hulking, bull-voiced Jacques Doriot. A former mechanic and metalworker, son of a blacksmith, his political career has been irregular as his private life is blameless...