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...years when Lenin, Trotsky and Zinoviev were the Bolshevik Big Three, speeches like the above by tousle-haired, barrel-chested Grigory Zinoviev thoroughly alarmed Englishmen from dukes to grocers. After them was the chairman of the Third International, Moscow's still extant organization for promoting the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. In those days Promoter Zinoviev had plenty of money. He poured millions into the treasuries of English trade unions. Probably he did not write the notorious Zinoviev Letter, purporting to "instruct" Laborite (i.e. Socialist) officials of James Ramsay MacDonald's first Cabinet (TIME...
Twice has Comrade Zinoviev organized opposition to Comrade Stalin's policies within the Party (TIME. Oct. 24, 1932). Twice has Stalin permitted him abjectly to repent and eat crow. Last week he was turning obscurely as a minor cog in the Party bureaucracy when abruptly the Dictator chose to flaunt again and pillory the name ZINOVIEV...
...Conservatives who dominate the National Government have many a trick still up their well-pressed sleeves. Not needing to go to the country until 1936, they may by that time have produced another Zinoviev Letter to thunderstrike Britons "who always vote Conservative when they are scared...
...this crime of omission Zinoviev and Kamenev were "expelled in perpetuity" from the Party, together with two females, Comrade Kaiurova and Comrade Zamiatina (charged with printing the manifesto) and other obscure persons, including one Comrade Rutin, who was called the chief conspirator...
Strange Mercy was shown to four comrades with potent connections among Big Reds. They, although seemingly much closer than Zinoviev or Kamenev to the conspiracy, were "provisionally expelled" from the Party, may at any time be reinstated. Unknown outside Russia, the favored four were said to include Paul Petrovsky whose father is Big Red Gregory Petrovsky, boss of the Ukranian Socialist Soviet Republic, No. 2 state in the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...