Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Japan has consistently tried to minimize recent Japanese-Russian clashes on the border of Siberia, an engagement, amounting to full-dress warfare occurred last week at disputed Changkufeng Hill close to the point where the Soviet-Man-chukuo border reaches the Sea of Japan. Terse Moscow communiqués said the Japanese had been "defeated," that the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo had been ordered "to lodge with the Japanese Government an energetic protest and to draw its attention to the gravest possible consequences of the actions of Japanese militarists. ..." A detailed Japanese official communique described...
Thirty-four years ago, an ardent young Russian girl named Angelica Balabanoff spoke at a Socialist meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was no new experience for her. She had left her comfortable, stuffy, middle-class home at 17; studied at Brussels, Berlin, Rome; joined the Italian Socialist Party; edited a women's paper. As a speaker she had been cheered by radicals and chased by reactionaries until she lost all self-consciousness on the platform. But during her speech at Lausanne, she was distracted by the most wretched-looking human being who had ever appeared in her audiences...
Mussolini was only one Socialist who disappointed Angelica in the course of her long revolutionary life, but none of the others-Trotsky, Stalin, Zinoviev. the Russian Revolutionist Georgy Plekhanov, Karl Radek-renounced his beliefs so completely. Nor did Angelica work so closely with the others as with Mussolini in the days when the future dictator was editor of the Italian Socialist Party's central newspaper. Her picture of him- brooding, explosive, egocentric, enigmatic, alternately violent and timid-is the most interesting part of My Life as a Rebel, which is a long (324 pages) record of defeats and betrayals...
...that nobody had any attitude toward him. Her version of Bolshevik history is that Lenin employed Zinoviev to split the labor movement of other countries by all manner of intrigue, that such methods became habitual, were employed by Trotsky as much as by Stalin, led to recent Russian trials. Although Angelica Balabanoff has not lost her faith in Socialism, believes that "the international labor movement can be built again," her disappointments make a melancholy record...
MURDER AT MANEUVERS - Royce Howes-Crime Club ($2). The shooting of a Russian general during war games; a simple, likable sleuth; suspects who include army officers and operators of a nearby speakeasy...