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These three were "comrades" to their Red soldiers until suddenly upped by Dictator Stalin to the hitherto capitalist rank of "Marshal" with enormous five-pointed stars of rank in their lapels. Millionaire Ambassador Davies called for a toast "to the Red Army, an army of citizenry devoted to peace...
...TIME, Feb. 15). At $10 a year, The Financial Observer booked 1,000 subscribers, among them J. P. Morgan. Newsstand sales went to 9,000 a week. Backer of the Observer was one John Bruce Heath. His respectable and even eminent staff* understood John Bruce Heath was a ; big capitalist from Canada. Actually this compelling little personage with a soft voice and wonderfully persuasive eyes was not John Bruce Heath at all but John Neville. He had been jailed for fraud in Illinois, was wanted by the police of Boston, where he had mulcted various people of some...
Financed and encouraged by the Communist State, the 600 theatre companies scattered through Russia have in the past decade gone on to technical and artistic horizons envied by many a private producer in many a capitalist country. Last week in Moscow the Soviet Fine Arts Commissariat was pleased to witness and approve an exciting 100,000-ruble operatic experiment whose spade work had been done not in the communist U. S. S. R. but in the capitalist U. S. When the performance, an extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch...
Fortnight ago the Davieses had a grand time in Leningrad, even today a city which retains in its architecture much smack of Capitalist pomp. It is also a chief Soviet industrial centre - most unfortunately from a strategic point of view. For that matter the industrial centres of the Ukraine visited by Mr. Davies last week are located much too near the European frontier of Russia for the peace of the Soviet's military minds. Imperial Russia had enormously larger buffer territories, holding Finland, the Baltic States, Poland and great areas now part of the Balkans- but part of Lenin...
...Leningrad the Davieses sat in the same Great Opera Theatre as did the Tsars & Tsarinas. They even saw the same typically Capitalist sort of opera, namely Eugene Onegin, presented as handsomely as under the Romanovs. The theme of this opera is a poem of at times ridiculous and always entirely bourgeois flirtation and frustration-unless one is a Russian, for all Russians, whether Communists or not, love the poet author of Eugene Onegin, faintly black-blooded Pushkin, "The Russian Shakespeare...