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Moscow meanwhile announced that the trial will commence April 9 or 10 before a special session of the Supreme Court under Judge Vasily Ulrich, with Chief Prosecutor Andrey Vishinsky conducting for the State. Charges will include espionage and conspiracy as well as sabotage. Extreme penalty: Death by shooting...
Busier was another Commissar last week, Andrey Andreevitch Andreev, recently appointed Commissar for Transportation. Fortnight ago he utilized his new powers by condemning four railwaymen of the Trans-Siberia Railway to death for criminal negligence (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week he attempted to counteract this unfortunate impression by announcing that a special de luxe train on the Trans-Siberia run will in future make the trip from Poland to Manchuria in seven days instead of eight. The good impression did not last. Three days later news got around of an accident even more dreadful than usual...
Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...Jewess, she is unable to secure a passport. Instead, she secures a prostitute's license. When she arrives at the jail where her father is confined, she finds him dead. She is then subjected to the insults of the secret police and the leering advances of a Baron Andrey (Lionel Barrymore). Further and even more desperate consequences of her junket are imminent until she makes good friends with a British journalist (Laurence Olivier) and, by virtue of what she can tell him about the technique of the secret police, becomes his secretary. When the journalist's revelations imperil his life...
...became officially a member of the Council of Labor & Defense, one of three interlocking councils that run the Soviet Government. At the same time "Prime Minister" Molotov, considered by dispassionate critics a far less able man than the deposed Rykov, received a new assistant in the person of one Andrey Andreyev, trades union official who was appointed vice president of the Council of People's Commissars of the U. S. S. R. Contrary to early reports Stalin had not completely banished Rightist Rykov from Soviet usefulness last week. He was removed from his two most important posts: president...