surely none of them would have constructed a charnel house as murderous as Stalin’s.

the pallid fascination of the Chaumont hills in the morning and the fascination of evening

I am still thankful to him for that edifying outburst of anger

If the Revolution had not been in such a parlous condition at the time, Kun would have had to face questioning about two other crimes.

Through its intolerance and its arrogation of an absolute monopoly of power and initiative in all fields, the Bolshevik regime was floundering in its own toils

Around the great conception of the Balkan Federation there swarmed hordes of secret agents, impresarios of irredentism

Slander had no effect on his name, calumny and insult heaped on him rebounded ineffectually and ended up bestowing on him a strange new aura.

to seal off hermetically the frontiers of the intellect

the light from the sky was rich and pellucid as nowhere else