Word: reventlows
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Whatever the real significance of the mooted Bolshevik-Royalist party, it cannot be denied that when a paper like Die Rote Fahne offers and Count Reventlow accepts the hospitality of its columns, there is an a priori case for something rotten in the German state...
...Nationalists (Monarchists) have a common enemy?the Socialists. It has been common knowledge for years that the two parties were slowly drifting together. Nevertheless all Berlin was startled to read in Die Rote Fahne, Communist daily, articles from Karl Radek, Soviet Government's able propagandist, and Count von Reventlow, apostle of the ex-All Highest...
Count von Reventlow, naval officer and noted exponent of ruthless submarine attacks during the War, recalled with regret the failure of German and Bolshevik arms to join forces against Poland in 1920. He complained of "the ruthless opposition of the Communists against the Nationalists," a fact which precluded the possibility of an alliance. He discussed in an approving vein a plan that Nationalist and Communists should march together "for a part of their way." After the defeat of the "common opponent" they?the Communists and the Nationalists?will be able to settle their differences...