Word: zinoviev
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zinoviev & Kamenev, Still a Big Red to many an ignorant British voter is bullnecked, tousle-haired Gregory Zinoviev. In 1924 the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" helped to wreck James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet. Addressed to the British Foreign Office, it contained "instructions" from Comrade Zinoviev. thus giving Scot MacDonald's foes a chance to tell British voters that his Government was "not taking orders from Moscow...
...Comrade Zinoviev, who promptly called the letter a "clumsy electioneering forgery"was at the time Chairman of the Third International: the World Communist Party whose main office was and is in Moscow. Two years later Zinoviev quarrelled with Stalin, was expelled from the Party in 1927, begged forgiveness. He was readmitted to the Party in 1928 but has never been a Big Red since. His job last week, before Dictator Stalin kicked him out a second time, was merely that of director of the Provincial University at Kazan-500 miles from Moscow...
...because he is the brother-in-law of Leon Trotsky, is the name of lean, neat-bearded, introspective Comrade Leo Kamenev, onetime Chairman (Speaker) of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (Soviet Congress). In 1927 Comrade Kamenev, like his friend Zinoviev, was kicked out of the Party, repented, was reinstated. Last week Kamenev (né Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (né Radomyslski) were each 49. They were charged not with having written, printed, distributed or inspired the anti-Stalin manifesto but merely with having known of its existence without immediately reporting it to the Dictator...
...scores of Red employes come and go without hindrance between Moscow and New York. Mr. Whalen handed out to newspapers a set of letters obtained by his undercover men, one typed on the stationery of Amtorg, others with Moscow letterheads. Impartial observers wondered if here was another "Zinoviev Letter," like that which rocked British politics in 1924 and upset the first MacDonald Cabinet after it had recognized the Soviet Government. Crudely phrased, prolix, roundabout, the letters arrive awkwardly at these points: 1) One "Feodor" of Moscow writes to one "G. Grafpen," ordering him to go to "Seattle in the State...
...both; 2) If they incriminate only Russians, there is a hullabaloo which dies down indecisively without any adequate investigation; 3) If high officials in the country where the letters appear seem to be involved, thorough investigation results in the conclusion that they are forgeries. (Cases in point: 1) The Zinoviev letter, now generally considered a forgery; 2) The letters purporting to show that Senators Borah and Norris had taken $100,000 each from the Reds, which were definitely proven forgeries by investigations pursued across the Atlantic and through numerous German courts...