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This stiff talk was followed by the unfolding of new Bolshevik building plans on a scale more grandiose than ever before. Commented News Pundit Walter Duranty: "Here they are building-mad. From the Arctic Ocean to the Caspian Sea, from the Baltic to the shores of the Pacific, there is such a fury of building as the world never saw. In the coming year the Soviets will spend 32 billion rubles on a building program which, in the valuation of Russian materials and Russian labor, represents between fifteen and twenty billions of dollars...
...major Soviet Five-Year-Plan building projects with Ogpu prisoners for workers and the Ogpu Terror to goad them to superhuman efforts in completing the project on time. Greatest of such Ogpu projects thus far was the famed Stalin Canal (linking the White Sea via Lake Onega with the Baltic Sea), finished two years ago (TIME, Aug. 14, 1933). Uncensored sources told of men & women driven with whips amid the flare of torches to pick-ax frozen ground during the long Arctic nights. Censored sources presented the Stalin Canal as a glorious social achievement in which "criminals redeemed themselves...
...Armistice Day ceremonies; in London. Admiral-of-the-Fleet Jellicoe was told in 1914 that he alone had the power to "lose the War in an afternoon." The afternoon when the overpowering British Grand Fleet met the crack German High Seas Fleet in the Skagerrak entrance to the Baltic Sea proved to be May 31, 1916. To 19 years of accusations that he bungled the Battle of Jutland, the War's only fleet engagement, Jellicoe's reply has been that he did not lose the War, even though he failed to destroy the German Fleet because of poor...
...most interesting features of the magazine and clip them religiously. A great deal of information is compressed into a small space in Harrison's maps; I remember particularly: "Italy in Abyssinia since 1882," in LETTERS, and "Manhattan's Black City" and ''Baltic Crisis," in TIME. 'Mediterranean Maneuver" and "Memel and Nazis" keep me hoping that Harrison will long continue to put the news...
...under construction will not be "pocket" (10,000 tons or under) at all, as provided by the Versailles Treaty, but thoroughgoing capital ships of 26,000 tons each. Also forbidden to have submarines, Germany has already launched a dozen of 250 tons each, has sent them out with its Baltic Fleet...