Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Union Central Council of Trade Unions. Its chief, famed Old Bolshevik Mikhail Tomsky, had maintained that "the trade unions should have an existence entirely separate and independent of the structure of the State." This doctrine clearly was not in harmony with the utter supremacy of Dictator Stalin, and the secret police began investigating Old Tomsky. whose friends in Russia and abroad were numberless. Presently police announced that he had "committed suicide" (TIME...
Socialist Largo Caballero, reaffirming his own enthusiasm for subjecting all Spain to a complete social revolution, accused the Communists of Leftist Spain of wavering toward compromise with the middle classes and betrayal of the revolution- these being the offenses of which Trotsky incessantly accuses Stalin. "As for the unification of the Socialist Party and the Communist Party I have not changed my views," cried Revolutionist Largo Caballero, whose admirers have nicknamed him the "Spanish Lenin." "All that I ask is that those who once wanted to create this fusion still hold to the same purpose which we used...
...most flattering sign last week of Communist confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth...
...That Sun Stalin shines in Switzerland too, appeared this week in dispatches from Zurich. There Swiss police arrested National Councilman Marino Bodenmann, a member of the pro-Stalinist Swiss Communist Party, and evidence seized led to arrests of many other Communists in Basel and Geneva as well. Documents seized show, according to the police, that Stalinists in Switzerland have succeeded in recruiting and shipping to Spain 1,200 volunteers for the Spanish Leftists in violation of neutral Switzerland...
...many Stalin sunworshippers there may be in the U. S. could be guessed from a festive evening in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week which opened with the Star-Spangled Banner and the Internationale. Morgan Partner Thomas William Lament's son Corliss, who describes himself as "not a Communist but a critical Communist sympathizer," was on hand with two Golden Books of American Friendship With The Soviet Union weighing 50 Ib. each. These contained the autographs of 100,000 U. S. citizens, were presented by critical Communist Sympathizer Lament to genial, likable Soviet Ambassador...