Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great stir greeted word that Belgium had actually adopted the no-credit-to-Italy sanction, but this exciting news proved false. At week's end only Communist Russia had officially shut off extension of credits to Fascist Italy. Bursting with suspicion, Russia's Foreign Commissar Litvinoff glared at Geneva's assembled Capitalist statesmen, told them tartly that the Soviet Union will keep vigilant watch and at the first sign that they are chiseling on sanctions will herself resume trade with Italy...
...prepared his revenge. He told Mary to persuade Kanarik to flee with her, left the troupe himself, ambushed Kanarik, stabbed him. Then, armed with Kanarik's money and passport, he took Mary to Warsaw, where he became a power in the underworld. Mary caught the fancy of a commissar, but Mottke chafed under his stolen identity, longed to have his own name back. He fell in love with the innocent daughter of a brothel-keeper, sold his retinue of girls into white slavery in Argentina, became respectable. Before their marriage he told his conventionally-minded betrothed of his crime...
...Soviet secret service smelled in Berlin quiet British efforts to obtain by means of concessions to Germany the co-operation of Realmleader Adolf Hitler in boycotting Italy. This discovery threw the Soviet Union overnight from high gear into low so far as the League is concerned. Soviet Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, whose voice at Geneva has been loudest against Il Duce, abruptly decided not to attend the League Assembly last week when it met to approve sanctions, sending instead Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet Ambassador to France. In Moscow leading Government newsorgans charged that Britain was attempting to "bribe" not only Germany...
Again violated was the Soviet Governrment's formal pledge, delivered at the White House by Foreign Commissar Litvinoff, not to allow on Russian soil groups engaged in attempting to overthrow the U. S. Government. Last week Attempter Gil Green, Secretary of the Young Communist League of America, was elected with two other U. S. Reds to the Congress Presidium of which Joseph Stalin is an honorary member...
Grooming popular Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov for his expected appointment as "Marshal of the Soviet Union," Pravda called Klim "the personification of a true Marshal of the Revolution...