The Fifth Congress of the Third International (Communist organization) ended.
To the Executive Committee (Komintern) were elected Alexis I. Rykov, also President of the Council of People's Commissaries and head of the Soviet Cabinet; Grigori Zinoviev, Ivan Stalin, Leo Kamenev, Nikolai Bucharin, editor of the Pravda, official Moscow journal ; William Dunn of Montana and some others.
Grigori Zinoviev became President of the Committee for the second time; the names of War Lord Trotzky and Karl Radek, two erstwhile powers of Communism, were dropped. This is obviously in retaliation for both Trot-ky's...
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