Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were fascinated by the spectacle of a contest between Trotskyism and Stalinism staged on the floor of the House between two of Britain's most extreme Left M. P.'s, respectively Communist Willie Gallacher and Independent Laborite Jock McGovern. Mr. McGovern demanded that His Majesty's Government take steps to secure the release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature...
...proud total, 350,000 Soviet tractors rumbling out over Russian harvest fields, was announced by Moscow last week as Communists were summoned at the double to win for Joseph Stalin a spectacular, unexpected "battle of the grain." Russia's potent Five-Year-Plan chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will...
...first reunion class, '35, came as dictators, marching behind a German band. Some wore brown shirts, for Hitler; some black shirts, for Mussolini; some red shirts, for Stalin, and some the white shirt, white ducks and panama of Fisherman Roosevelt. They raised beer cans in a fascist salute. Said their placards: Frankie is just a lot of Frankfurter, Beware of Third Termites, When bigger and better dictators are made, he'll be a Harvard...
...ministers, diplomats bade an informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr. Davies, handed him a small flat parcel. Inside were autographed pictures of Joseph Stalin and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov...
...gift to the U. S. capitalist-diplomat from the Soviet Union's Communist rulers was the last of a series of cordial farewells terminating Mr. Davies' 18 months' ambassadorship in Moscow. Most unusual feature of the farewells was a two-hour talk (subjects unrevealed) with Dictator Stalin himself. Two days before their departure, Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinoff gave a farewell dinner to Mr. & Mrs. Davies and the Embassy staff. Tipping a glass of champagne in a toast to President Roosevelt. Commissar Litvinoff declared there was a "latent mutual sympathy'' between...