Word: commissar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slightly nervous as to how the Code Hitler will turn out seemed Commissar for Justice Dr. Hans Frank last week. Instead of insisting with most Nazis that the new code will be far superior to any ever produced before Dr. Frank gravely said: "Roman law was undoubtedly a great cultural achievement on the part of the Roman people, but I am certain that the new German law, based on Kultur und Rasse* will be at least as good...
Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation...
...theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds the Red Army's oldtime War Lord and Stalin's rival Trotsky. With "Klim" at a dinner tendered Ambassador Bullitt by the Litvinoffs were the Commissars of Foreign Trade, Light Industry and Internal Supply. With Foreign Trade Commissar Arkadi Rosengoltz, Ambassador Bullitt had "a long and interesting conversation." Necessarily, however, his Moscow visit was devoted not to trade but to finding suitable quarters for a U. S. Embassy.- The Soviet Government offered to rent the huge mansion...
...Commissar of Health Mikhail Fedorovich Vladimirsky told the inquisitors emphatically that in the U. S. S. R.† "medical aid is given without payment to all workers and peasants, who form the bulk of the population. For the rest, the desire is to serve all gratuitously but hitherto they have not been included in the general service, the first call being for the workers. Thus in a dispensary an intellectual will have to wait until all the workers have been treated...
...Commissar Vladimirsky thrilled Sir Arthur and Mr. Kingsbury with the terrors of his life. At 22 (he is 60 now) he was exiled for pre-Communist revolutionary activities against Tsardom. He shared in the "Decembrist" uprising of 1905, was arrested and emigrated "under pressure." In France he practiced medicine, astonished villagers by occasionally treating them free. He was at Lenin's side and Trotsky's during the terrible days of 1917 when the Bolsheviks took command of Russia. No one is more authentically Russian than he, no one more authentically of the Party...