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...Harvard Thomas-for-President Club heartily deplores and condemns the prevalent un-American tendency to brand all new doctrines seditions and to brand as traitors all leaders of new thought. Among institutions which existed for many years were chattel slavery, feudalism, and Tsarist regime in Russia, among the advocates of new political systems have been Jesus Christ, Washington and Lincoln. His fellow citizens demand to know how Benjamin Gitlow has merited jail, and why he has been held incommunicando...
Died. George S. Bakhmeteff, last Ambassador of Tsarist Russia to the U. S. (1911-17); of heart disease; in exile; at Paris...
Corroborative of all this reactionary gossip is the fact that M. Dzhugashvili, whom Lenin nicknamed "Stalin" ["Steel"], was five times exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist regime for various high crimes and misdemeanors, but he five times escaped. In the war of "Whites" and "Reds" which followed the Russian revolution Comrade "Steel" valiantly defended the town of Tsaritsin, which is now called Stalinsk...
...classed as a mere creature, according to despatches, was M. Aaron ("Diamond Jew") Rubenstein, who was recently employed by the Polish Government to appraise a shipment of onetime Tsarist diamonds sent for sale in Poland by the Soviet Government. Perhaps it was that service which secured for M. Rubenstein a private cell and communication with his lawyer, although the Polish prosecutor will endeavor to show that he is the head of an international ring of diamond smugglers. Reports that none of the swallowers were suffering more than a minor gripe, caused physicians to recall that sizable nuts & bolts, small spoons...
...Russie Opprimee is the Paris news organ of M. Alexandre Kerensky, the post-Tsarist and pre-Communist head of the Russian State. Though M. Kerensky is cordially detested by most Tsarists and by all Communists, he is now publishing an "expose" of the Shahkta Trial...