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...taught, a dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e., a disciplined little gang of power monopolists). In 1917, in the assembly hall of a swank girls' school in Petrograd, behind unwashed windows that excluded the sky, Lenin stood up. His ill-fitting, overlong trousers flapped about his feet. Gripping the rostrum, he said quietly: "We shall now proceed to construct the proletarian socialist order in Russia...
There was a good deal of rustic rostrum-thumping about the specter of "red fascism" as a world menace, something you'd expect to hear just about anywhere except in Littauer. But between these blasts he made careful and professorial defenses of the position of the United States. In the address, he kept to a general support of the Truman Doctrine. Our "imperialism" always has been pretty shoddy, he said, meaning that it has been half-hearted, naive, and oven sort of generous. He then took the occasion to compare our expansion and that of the Soviets--the Truman...
Competitions in "the good old days" featured initiation. Arthur N. Holcombe, '06, professor of Government, proudly recalls a certain Government 1 peroration delivered while he was being ejected from the rostrum by three CRIMSON nominees dressed as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin...
Artillery. Republican Congressmen listened to the President in frigid silence. In Harry Truman's 43 minutes on the Speaker's rostrum, G.O.P. applause spattered forth only twice: when he promised to enforce the Taft-Hartley Act, when he urged "strong armed forces." After it was over, one newsman noted: "They had to cut a hole in the ice to get him out of the Chamber...
...debate, no quarter was asked or given. From the Assembly rostrum, Soviet Delegate Andrei Vishinsky counterattacked with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...