Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other Asiatic dictator, Joseph Stalin, gave to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics "the world's most democratic constitution"-except that it is the very reverse of that, a windy mockery which leaves the Stalin Dictatorship unimpaired. In France the year brought the first Cabinet headed by a Socialist that country has ever had, but Premier Leon Blum and his "New Deal" have brought a series of nationwide strikes and political headaches. Adolf Hitler in 1936 tore up the last shreds of the Treaty of Versailles, but Der Führer has yet to grapple with an external...
...such an economic and political spot that now is actually the best time for China to go to war. Japanese respect the judgment of Mr. Soong and if he was for war then they could be sure they were hearing thunder on the Left, sure that Stalin was going to back China, panic-stricken lest at any hour Soviet air squadrons from Vladivostok appear and bomb Tokyo with no preliminary declaration of war. Japan played just that dirty trick on Tsar Nicholas at Port Arthur. Why should not Dictator Stalin play it now in Russian revenge on Japan...
Comrade Trotsky has since resided in Turkey, France and finally Norway. He is supposed to be a hatcher of anti-Stalin plots, but considering that agents of the Soviet secret service have made away in France with at least two of Stalin's lesser enemies, the health still enjoyed by Comrade Trotsky is matter for wonder. He is the most professional of revolutionists, with a finished technique of backhanded delicacy, and last week his activities were of unusual interest. Trotsky let it be known last month that he was going to have to leave Norway, and was afraid...
...late great Earl of Birkenhead, "The Galloper," when Secretary of State for India prior to Joseph Stalin's break with Leon Trotsky (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), once openly remarked with characteristic recklessness that British agents had been working for some years to undermine the position of Comrade Trotsky in Russia. "But, dash it all, they don't seem to be able to do anything...
Best European opinion is divided as to whether Stalin and Trotsky are actually each other's bitterest foes or whether the Dictator, who hates to spare much money from Russia for purposes of "World Revolution," regularly spares a little to the Great Exile on the theory that his talents as a trouble-maker for Capitalism are so great as to render the little he costs a bargain. Exile Trotsky expectorates in print upon Dictator Stalin on all occasions, and Stalin only recently staged in Moscow an amazing trial of alleged "Trotskyist conspirators" against himself (TIME, Aug. 31). Death sentences...