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...Korea have generally been closemouthed, U.N. interrogation officers wanted to know why Fan was being so talkative. Fan was glad to explain. Last May, he found three Chinese WACs in the division to which he was assigned as "entertainment officer" (i.e., a job somewhere between U.S.O. director and political commissar). "One," he said, "was a beautiful young girl named Toy. We fell in love. It was not at all bad being so far away from home under those conditions. Then the division commander began to notice...
...served in Poland and Germany with or under him. Their picture of Vasily is not quite so heroic. Vasily Iosifovich Dzhugashvili Stalin was bora in 1921 or 1922, probably in Moscow (no one is quite sure). Lenin was still alive. Joseph Stalin, in his middle 40s, was then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once sheltered him from Czarist police. A year...
...Major General Ilya Gaponenko, 50, onetime political commissar...
July 14. Lieut. General Ivan Konnov, 51, onetime leading army political commissar...
Last week Manhattan's anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader, published more evidence of Mann's political activities. It was a letter to Stalin's cultural commissar in East Germany, Poet Johannes Becher. More worshipful of Russia's boss than Pravda, Becher turns out such drivel as: "How happy must be the letter 'i' as it is permitted to form a letter in the name of Stalin." Cries he in his "Hymn to the Soviet Union...