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...Joseph Stalin's feats of violence in Soviet Russia has been to suppress and subjugate the famed Cossacks of the Don, for centuries Russia's boldest spirits, enjoying special immunities from the Tsar in return for their deathless loyalty and arrogant readiness to shoot down proletarian scum at the drop of a shaggy caracul hat. Some 20,000 members of the eleven Cossack tribes are now exiles, scattered throughout the world. Best known Cossack among non-Cossacks today is the distinguished War commander, General Peter Nikolaevitch Krasnov, blood-curdling author of such best sellers as From Double Eagle...
Langlois, Férol and Didier were privates in the same French regiment, but in different companies. They were not pals; until their fate brought them together they had never even spoken to each other. Langlois was an educated man, Didier was lower caste, Férol was the scum of the earth. Langlois rejoined the regiment, after a leave spent with his young wife, just as its battered remnants had come out of the front line for a well-earned rest. But their luck was out: because the high command wanted a hitherto impregnable sector of the German line...
...married a slattern whom he gladly left. As a middle-aged tax collector for Philip's insatiable treasury Cervantes might have ended his weary days. But he fell foul of his superiors, was arrested for embezzlement and clapped into the big jail at Seville. There, with the scum of Spain as his audience and his inspiration, Author Frank leaves him, happily hard at work on his masterpiece...
...murder of Josef Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME. Dec. 10). With the Russian people clamoring to know why a Communist shot a Communist, they were put off by this resolution of the Moscow Party bureau: "The abominable cunning agents of the class enemies, the coward scum of the former Zinoviev anti-Party group, have torn Comrade Kirov from our ranks. We will stamp out every one of the vile counter-revolutionary followers of the anti-Party...
During the War the Londonderrys with drew upstairs into their own attic, turned the rest of Londonderry House into a hospital. To the Marchioness and to her arch-Tory husband in those days J. Ramsay MacDonald was "that Pacifist!" ? the lowest of socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...