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...morning last week Russians woke up to face screaming headlines in the Stalin-controlled Press that a plot to assassinate Stalin had just been discovered, that the chief plotters were Trotsky and two other renowned Old Bolsheviks, Zinoviev and Kamenev, who for the past 20 months have been in jail in Russia. Some of the 14 plot underlings from abroad were said to have been seized in Russia with credentials which Pravda described as passports forged by the Nazi secret police "amid the screams of tortured Communist heroes." According to Moscow rumors the Dictator was to have been assassinated...
...Stalin ordered staged and broadcast this week one of his great propaganda trials to which the entire Russian nation is urged to listen in. Hitherto no Old Bolshevik leader against whom even the gravest charges have been proved has ever been executed, but this time Moscow broadly hinted that Zinoviev and Kamenev will be shot...
...population." That done, Jan Otmar Berson dropped in on one of the concluding sessions of the Communist Congress for promoting the null Revolution of the World Proletariat. The Comintern's final act was to revive the post of Secretary General last held in 1926 by tousle-haired Grigory Zinoviev, "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," whose career abruptly ended when Joseph Stalin decided to soft-pedal World Revolution for a time. As forecast, Bulgarian Communist George Dimitroff, adder-tongued Red hero of the Nazi trial which failed to convict Communists of burning down the German Reichstag, was chosen last week Secretary...
...best rooms in Moscow's best hotels, for which tourists are charged $15 per day, were being occupied free by nondescript persons of both sexes, of every race and all colors. The last Chairman of the Comintern was the famed "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism," shaggy Comrade Grigory Zinoviev. In 1926 thrifty Joseph Stalin decided to squander less Soviet gold on Communists abroad and Chairman Zinoviev, huffing and puffing, resigned from the Comintern. To day, since Stalin has broken not only with Zinoviev but also with Trotsky, who should be groomed in Moscow last week for election by the Congress...
...rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed Russian terrorists from England until the Revolution...