Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Communist Paradoxes. In Moscow the official Soviet Foreign Office spokesman told correspondents amiably and without heat that the Stalin Regime has "no objection to Mexico's granting asylum to Trotsky," adding perfunctorily, "so long as Trotsky is not permitted to use Mexico as a base for plotting against the Soviet Union...
Considering that Stalin claims to believe that Trotsky successfully fomented the assassination of the Dictator's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.), and then hatched a conspiracy which had the death of Stalin as its objective (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.), it was curious last week that official Moscow and the Party and press in Russia were indifferent to the honors President Cardenas was paying to Mexico's guest. Tremendous was the hullabaloo raised meanwhile by the Mexican Communist Party which is avowedly Stalinist. Its General Secretary,† blatant Comrade Hernan Laborde, massed...
Such glamour and revolutionary talent cannot be that of an official Soviet personage or even a comrade known to be intimate with Stalin. Reason: nearly every country which has recognized the Stalin regime has exacted formal treaty pledges-as did President Roosevelt-that Soviet diplomats, consuls and such will not in practice work to foment the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" to which every Communist is pledged in theory. Mr. Roosevelt went even further, exacting from Comrade Stalin a pledge not to have on Russian soil any organization or persons engaged in attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government...
Since the Dictator is the most prominent member of the Moscow International devoted to fomenting the World Revolution, it is doubtful in a strictly legal sense whether Comrade Stalin has a right to permit himself to stay in Russia under the pledges given Washington, but neither the Dictator nor the President is a legal stickler. What is certain is that no great Red could, under the treaty pledges Moscow has given, stay abroad and foment Revolution if he were not officially an outcast from Russia...
...reported in unconfirmed dispatches to have been taken over by a Chinese Communist army, and jittery Japanese continued to fear that the Premier's fantastic kidnapping and its fantastic sequels were largely a blind to distract world attention from a drawing together of Chiang's China and Stalin's Russia for united war on Japan...