Foreign News: Red Thursday

Last week marked the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Third International, the Communist organization which in 1919 broke off from the Socialist Second International under the leadership of Nicolai Lenin. Under orders from Moscow, Communists throughout the world celebrated in their own peculiar fashion.

London. A small but vociferous band of Communists, carrying large red streamers, attempted to march to the Mansion House, to interview the Lord Mayor. A cordon of placid, unarmed policemen held them back. One press photographer was slightly battered.

Paris. Because of Communist boasts that thousands of workmen...

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