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There was also sudden talk in Moscow last week of establishing nondenominational U. S. Protestant churches in Russia. This, Bolshevik leaders seemed to feel, would help President Roosevelt shush devout U. S. critics of his failure to protest up to last week the broken Soviet pledge. Correspondents were told that all U. S. Protestants have to do is supply the money and they can have a church in Moscow...
...lately been winning his boss around to buying some Russian railway equipment. Meanwhile, however, he had to perform the impossible to keep Stalin's favor, had to load more Russian freight cars than could be loaded-unless. This "unless" was Comrade Kaganovich's inspiration, his stroke of Bolshevik genius. Seeing that freight car loadings could not be increased unless passenger service, already inadequate, was ruthlessly curtailed, the Commissar for Transport has been busy reducing the number of Russian passenger trains, cutting out sleeping cars except those used by foreign tourists, slashing the number of tickets stationmasters are permitted...
...favorite area have been sharply upped in price this summer by the State to help Transport's Commissar discourage human transport and spur freight. Should Kaganovich ever cease to be Stalin's pet, Russians agreed last week, he can fairly be made the star defendant in a Bolshevik "Propaganda Trial" to discover what "capitalist hireling" sabotaged the entire passenger transport service of the Soviet Union...
...purpose. President Wilson ignored his warnings and pleas. When Thompson discovered that the Bolsheviki were gaining strength on their twin program-all power to the Soviets and land for the peasants-he studied the Soviets at work, learned that the common people obeyed their decisions, urged Kerensky to steal Bolshevik thunder and slogans...
...time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME, May 27). This heresy was enshrined at Moscow last week as Communist dogma. In the former Hall of Nobles, some 600 Communist Party delegates from nearly every country in the world met as the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, cheered Dictator Stalin for 15 minutes as "the Leader...