Word: russia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slogan of most opposition parties in Europe might well be the battle cry that punsters once pinned on U. S. Socialist Norman Thomas: "Cast away your votes and follow me!" Oppositionists are purged in Russia, shot in Germany, castor-oiled in Italy, executed in Spain, while in most of Central Europe their continued existence is dependent upon the utter impossibility of their ever winning an election. Last week two big opposition party congresses -Labor in England (see p. 24) and Socialist in France-demonstrated that even in Europe's democracies, where oppositionists are not considered criminals, enemies...
Internal harmony restored, Labor then jumped with ineffectual vigor on Prime Minister Chamberlain, damned his delay in concluding a defensive pact with Russia, denounced his policy in Palestine by a vote of 890-to-2. But it accepted conscription lying down. And although it began preparations for a general election, probably this autumn, observers noted with Sir Stafford gone it had no popular leader likely to lead Labor to a national victory, that no Labor Party Congress since its earliest days had attracted so little attention, that even a small conference of rebellious Conservatives like Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
Sudden suppression of Russia's 1937 census figures and the "disappearance" of statisticians who prepared them led to that bad internal conditions had lowered Russia's population, doubts abroad about Soviet military civil strength...
...Russian republics showed only small increases: White Russia 12%; Ukraine 7%. Since the population of these border republics died by the million as a result of the Kremlin's starvation policy in 1932, was purged from 1933 to 1938, while whole frontier villages were transported for military reasons, observers wondered how census figures were able to show any increase...
...year of Munich, armies had increased to 10,000,000 men, naval tonnage had jumped to 8,000,000, military planes had possibly trebled in number and $17,000,000,000 went slithering down the gullet of the hungry god of war-to-be. This year, with Russia leading the Big Parade (U. S. S. R. war budget for 1939 is $8,000,000,000), these figures are again skyrocketing...