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...nearly a month ago, the new Russian Constitution was still last week being kept the darkest of Bolshevik secrets. Curiosity is a major Russian trait and inquisitive tension throughout the Soviet Union was becoming terrific. With everyone fairly panting for news a few leaks oozed at last from the Commissariat of Justice. Comrade Andrei Philipov, Public Prosecutor of Moscow District, emitted the most startling hint. In 1930 was celebrated with great Bolshevik fanfare throughout Russia "The Decennial Anniversary of the Legalization of Abortion in the Soviet Union"-this always having been described by Communists as a boon conferred...
...Publisher Howard on Sunday and Stalin did, to the sour vexation of Moscow's regular correspondents. Cabled the Herald Tribune's Joseph B. Phillips: "[The] interview which Joseph V. Stalin gave to Roy W. Howard ... on Sunday . . . has just been whipped into shape for release by the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs [on Wednesday...
Still later the Ogpu was given yet another name to make it seem more like a normal European Ministry of Interior, became the Commissariat of Interior, under the reigning Ogpu chief, smudge-mustached, pudgy-fingered Comrade Genrikh ("Henry") Grigorevitch Yagoda. Moscow's official daily Pravda ("Truth") hailed the terrorist clique in its new role as Commissariat of Interior thus: "Long has the Ogpu worn a halo formed of the deep love of tens of millions of workers and peasants both in our Soviet land and abroad!"* Last week Comrade Yagoda's Commissariat of Interior became the Commissariat General...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...Tsarist Government paid no attention to Michurin. But Lenin encouraged him and the Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...