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Born Skriabin in 1890, he was a son of a store clerk and turned revolutionist early. He took the name Molotov (Hammer) in 1914. During World War I he organized Bolshevik groups in Moscow, was exiled to Siberia, escaped and went underground in Petrograd. During the February Revolution he was a member of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee and collaborated with Lenin and Stalin. In 1922, during the Lenin-Trotsky split, Stalin replaced Molotov as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Molotov stayed on as Stalin's assistant, proved his loyalty during the Stalin-Trotsky...
...many a confidant Adolf Hitler has explained that South America is an easy conquest for a determined revolutionist. Last week from Rome, Correspondent John T. Whitaker summed up fascist opinion on how he could do it: "The Germans . . . will have you helpless long before it is necessary to match arms with you. . . . They will strip you of trade first. . . . Britain has been your best customer. Conquered, she will be your customer no longer. . . . Without markets your armaments and welfare programs will destroy you ... for you cannot find these billions as your national income declines. Your unemployment will mount. Your social...
...Mary Douglas, a U. S. foreign correspondent, how she got involved with anti-Nazi conspirators, her big failure when she enlisted the help of a British Special Commissioner and a French general in a scheme to protect her German Communist friend Rita. (Rita, romanticized mistress of a romanticized revolutionist, is refugee heroine of Author Gellhorn's story within a story-an artificial device, justified mainly by a climax scene which adds a graphic chapter to inquisitional literature...
...scientists have been more tender, sympathetic parents than Charles Darwin, father of ten. But Darwin was a scientist first, a father afterward. From the moment his first child, William Erasmus ("Doddy"), was born, 100 years ago, the eager Revolutionist began to take notes on his infants' wailing, coughing, drooling, kicking, stretching, winking, frowning, screaming. "With a fine degree of paternal fervor," Darwin tickled the naked soles of his babies' feet with paper, "tried to look savage" to provoke tears. Purpose of his baby-baiting was to determine whether the instinctive reactions of childhood were similar to the gestures...
...autobiographical first novel of a Russian ex-revolutionist and army officer who escaped to the U. S. in 1924, They That Take the Sword is a simply-told, convincing, first-person marathon (717 pages). It traces the career of an idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...