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...year-old Arseny Bore-movich, who admitted that he was "slightly guilty": he had done a bit of spying for Moscow, and during the war had sentenced 24 Yugoslav partisans to death while serving as a judge in Yugoslavia's pro-fascist Ustashi courts. The Russian Orthodox priest, Alexei Kryshkov, got 11½ years, plus the "loss of civil rights" for four years. He had confessed to writing reports for the Soviet embassy in Belgrade which were afterwards used in Radio Moscow's anti-Tito broadcasts. The only woman defendant, Ksenia Komad, got the lightest sentence-three years...
...same old cast was on hand. Dr. Hewlett Johnson, Red Dean of Canterbury, proudly fondled the immense gold cross dangling on his chest-a cherished gift from the Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexei. "To talk of peace in the Soviet Union," said the Dean sanctimoniously, "is like bringing one's samovar to Tula."* Italy's table-thumping left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni furiously denounced the Atlantic pact as an instrument of war, shouted that President Truman was "a pocket-sized Napoleon . . ." The U.S. was represented by party-lining Negro educator Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, Germany by America...
...Like Alexei Ivanovich, the hero of The Gambler, he is also in love with the proud, cynical daughter (Ava Gardner) of a corrupt Russian general (Walter Huston) who has sold himself and his daughter as tools of an unprincipled Frenchman (Melvyn Douglas...
MacAlpin, Rex Nere of 4056 Stansbury Street, Sherman Oaks; Harvard School, North Hollywood. Maradudin, Aleixei Alexei of 135 West Palm Avenue, El Segundo; El Segundo High. Stokdyk, John Ellis of 702 Hilldale Street, Berkeley; Berkeley High. Twitchell, Robert Spencer of Woodrow Wilson High, Long Beach...
Scholarly Alexei Rykov, former president of the Council of People's Commissars, said: "... I confirm the admission of my monstrous crimes . . . We were preparing for a coup d'etat, we organized kulak insurrections and terrorist groups ... I would like those who have not yet been exposed and have not yet laid down their arms to do so immediately . . . Their only salvation lies in helping the party...