Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half-truth was shrieked in Manhattan, last week, from the platform of a hall into which had jammed 5,000 men, women and children, all members or hangers-on of the Workers' (Communist) Party. This group of U. S. Reds looks for leadership to the dictator of Soviet Russia, silent, ruthless Josef Stalin; and consequently hates and fears famed Leon Trotsky, whom Stalin has booted out of Russia despite the fact that Trotsky was one of the first and greatest leaders of the Soviet Revolution, the friend of Lenin and the creator of the Soviet army...
Describing his recent ejection from Russia, Leon Trotsky (real name Lev Davidovich Bronstein) declared that agents of Dictator Stalin appeared suddenly at Trotsky's place of exile, Almaata, on the borders of Russian Turkestan, and informed him that he, his son and Mme. Trotsky must pack up their possessions and prepare to leave Russia. Soon all were bundled into a motor bus and since the snow was all but impassable a tractor was attached to pull the bus. Presently bus, tractor and Trotskys sank into a snowdrift. Seven hours were spent in extricating the exiles and conveying them...
...special train had been provided, and so potent is the name of TROTSKY still, in Russia, that at his mere request another special train chuffed down from Moscow to meet the first, bearing two of his relatives for a family reunion. All along Comrade Trotsky had told the dictator's agents that he "refused"' to leave Russia at Stalin's "illegal" order, and seemingly the agents were so perturbed by this that they stopped the Trotsky special train for 12 days amid open fields to query Moscow for further orders. Every day the engine would chuff...
...spite of a reconciliation, to defy him. In the playwright's mind she sinks lower and lower. That, however, is against a background of Victorian moral standards. What would happen to Katerina in real life in 1929 would make an entirely different play. Andreyev deals with the Russia of before the War. That Russia is gone, so much of his play vanishes...
Although it has been denied that Ford of France will be a subsidiary of Ford of England, the fact remains that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., of England, was given charter rights to market Fords throughout Europe (except in Soviet Russia), in Asia Minor and in certain parts of Africa. Ford companies were to be acquired in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Holland, Sweden and Finland, and unsuccessful attempts were made to secure a concession from the Soviet government (TIME, March 4). Ford of England was to hold 60% of the stocks of European Ford companies; the other...