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Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Soviet spokesman at Montreux, was 60 years old last week. Because in Bolshevik theory a Foreign Commissar is a most unimportant character, not to be compared with such weighty men as Defense Commissar Voroshilov or Commissar of Transportation Andreyev, photographs of rotund Commissar Litvinoff are practically non-existent in Russia. Millions of good Communists do not even know of his existence. As a birthday present Joseph Stalin decided last week that his Foreign Commissar had been neglected long enough. To him the Red dictator sent the rosette of the Order of Lenin, highest Soviet decoration...
...sabotage" rather than buy them good modern rolling stock and signals, remains perhaps the Kremlin's major mystery. Last week Soviet trains were still being hauled by Tsarist locomotives, and after more than three full years of shooting Soviet railwaymen, Dictator Stalin's zealous Comrade Andrey Andreyev had had enough of being Commissar of Railways...
...disgrace, since everyone knows whose fault it is that Soviet railways remain in an appalling mess, Comrade Andreyev was honored by being appointed one of the four potent secretaries of the Communist Party Central Committee. Into the curiously bloody and repugnant job of Commissar of Railways, Dictator Stalin last week put big. iron-nerved Comrade Lazar Kaganovich who has just built the first eight miles of Moscow's projected 50-mile subway...
Last week Stalin spoke his mind to young Andrey A. Andreyev who made such a name as Russia's ablest industrial "troubleshooter" two years ago that the Dictator promoted him to be Commissar for Land Transport. Result was another decree, aimed chiefly at Andreyev's railroadmen: Any worker who falls short of his quota "either in quality or quantity" will be fined; if his failures are due to abnormal working conditions, the deductions from his pay will not exceed 33% ; if his failures are his own fault, 100% will be the limit. After that, Stalin and Andreyev waited...
...week Comrade Shatov was supposed to be Josef Stalin's most efficient, most popular man-driver on the railways of the Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...