Word: zetkin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* "Mother of German Communism," arrived from Moscow for the occasion. On the Nationalist bench the aged Admiral von Tirpitz stroked his pendulous forked beard...
...greying and the Soviets are not producing new brain power at an overwhelming rate. Seeking a remedy for this state of affairs he was last week reported to have visited Dr. Serge Voronoff, French gland specialist, and to have "assisted at a successful rejuvenation operation performed upon Klara Zetkin," 68, famed "Grandmother of German Communism" and member of the German Reichstag...
...Page 15, RUSSIA, for an account of the alleged Voronoff rejuvenation of 68-year-old Klara Zetkin...
With a loud voice, the executive committee of the third Internationale issued orders nine columns long to the German Communist Party: Frau Ruth Fischer, its leader, is to be deposed. Thus she follows Rosa Luxemburg* and Klara Zetkin† into limbo. The reason given for the Communist order was the growing ineffectiveness of the Communist movement in Germany. Ernst Thaelmann, former dockyard worker, was named in her place. He is a more "moderate" Communist than Frau Fischer. Dr. Hugo Eckener, veteran Zeppelin pilot, made a speech at Leipzig, appealing for funds to build a Zeppelin to make a flight...
...Clara Zetkin, Editor of Die Gleichheit, organ of the International Socialist Woman's movement allied with the Spartacists, was expelled from her post when the Party Directorate took control of the paper...