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Boris Steiger, for 14 years the Soviet Foreign Commissariat's chief contact man with Moscow diplomats, a personal friend and frequent guest of the first U. S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., William Christian Bullitt, now Ambassador to France...
Vladimir Moiseevich Zukermann, former chief of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Commissariat...
...role in shaping its wages and hours policies. In recent years Moscow dispatches have reported that this collective bargaining role of Soviet trade unions has "withered away," that the Kremlin has reduced them to the "cultural-educational role" of explaining its decrees to Soviet workers. In 1933, the Cabinet Commissariat for Labor was abolished and its functions transferred to the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. Its chief, famed Old Bolshevik Mikhail Tomsky, had maintained that "the trade unions should have an existence entirely separate and independent of the structure of the State." This doctrine clearly...
...first flecks of dawn came up over the low hills around Beirut one morning last week, a swarthy, bullet-headed Armenian trudged with leaden steps over the rough courtyard in front of the High Commissariat Building. Softly he crooned a Turkish song: "I have waited for thee, but thou hast not come." Before a crude, hastily constructed wooden structure, he halted. Above the planking, blackly outlined against the grey dawn, dangled a loose rope. Around the platform stood silent native policemen, Syrian officials. They had gathered to witness the hanging of Mejardich Karayan, the 29-year-old Armenian assassin...
...nominated candidates and but a small percentage of the nominations have yet been made. Moreover 145,000,000 ballots have not been printed because there is a paper shortage resulting from a lumber shortage so acute that Stalin's official newsorgans were accusing officials of the Timber Commissariat last week of conspiracy to "sabotage the election" simply by a lack of pulp. Lacking too, According to irate Pravda and Izvestia, are pencils in anything like sufficient quantities to mark the 100,000,000 ballots expected to be cast. To have to buy shiploads of pencils from Capitalist countries...