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...Comrade Genrikh Grigorevitch Yagoda, Chief of the Ogpu, was transferred to the newly created Soviet portfolio of Commissar of Interior. He took with him the Ogpu staff, somewhat reduced. Censorship blurred details of the spot-changing, but the official newsorgan Pravda ("Truth") significantly informed Russians that "formation of the Commissariat of Interior does not mean that the campaign against traitors to the Soviet Fatherland and against agents of International Capital will be lessened...
...Comrade Yagoda retains direction of most of his old spies, who now become "agents"' of the Commissariat of Interior. He retains command of a large part of the Ogpu Special Troops, an army of super-drilled and super-equipped Praetorian Guards of the Soviet Regime. Up to now they have "liquidated" with poison gas, machine-guns and shrapnel every trace of political opposition to Dictator Stalin. Most recently wiped out, behind censorship, was a secessionist movement in the Ukraine last winter...
Felicitating the new Commissar of Interior, Pravda exclaimed: "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." This halo, Pravda felt sure, will long remain the radiant nimbus of the Commissariat of Interior...
Meanwhile buxom English-born Mrs. Ivy Low Litvinoff, cheery wife of the Foreign Commissar, left their four-room apartment in a converted garage with her grave, acutely class-conscious 16-year-old son Mischa. Together they hurried to the Soviet Commissariat of Communications. Proud as punch. Soviet technicians placed before them a Russian-made telephone, bade them talk by short wave radio to Comrade Litvinoff, seated in the Oval Room of the White House. "Millions of Americans will listen to you on their radio networks!" cried the chief Red technician proudly. "Say whatever you wish...
...most spectacular example of Soviet docility came from the Foreign Commissariat. It was discovered that tall, swart Leo M. Karakhan had been quietly transferred from his important post as chief of the Far Eastern section of the Foreign Office, will in the future busy himself with the Near East. And a Moscow court last week gave stiff jail sentences to four Russian coastguardsmen who last July killed three Japanese crab fishermen...