Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly the Soviets are preparing for war became further evident last week when Gregory Kaminsky, General Sanitary Inspector and Commissar of Health, sent out a continent-wide call for Wartime blood donors. These are to register at any of the 514 blood-supply stations which the Institute for Transfusion of Blood in Moscow has scattered throughout...
...Howard confronted the Dictator with the fact that Soviet Russia has violated and continues to violate the solemn promises of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 27-1933) Soviet wits have accurately said that the Daughters of the American Revolution probably could not be permitted to meet in Moscow if the Litvinoff engagements were fulfilled to the letter by the Soviet Government. Mr. Howard's point was that they are not fulfilled. Comrade Stalin's rebuttal was by implication that it would be absurd for the Soviet Union to do what...
...that the enemy of France is always going to be Germany. Launching swift efforts to strengthen old French alliances against the Reich and forge new ones, venerable but vivacious Louis Barthou had a glorious time dashing from capital to capital. In Geneva he sat down with Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff and negotiated the terms of an Eastern Pact of Mutual Assistance between France and Russia to which Germany and Poland were invited to adhere (TIME, Sept. 24, 1934) The pact amounted to an agreement that, if any Eastern European State burst out of its frontiers, the others would...
...going to feel German and Japanese pincers pricking the Soviet union on both flanks. That ink is newly dry on a Japanese-German secret treaty of military alliance is charged in resounding Moscow speeches by owlish Soviet Premier Molotov and that popular eagle of the Red Army, Defense Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Since the Soviet Secret Service is definitely keen, Dictator Joseph Stalin anticipated months ago that the Japanese, feeling Germany to be with them, would in time pass from hesitant encroachment and frontier incidents to such undeclared war as came last week. To Moscow the forehanded Dictator recently invited flat...
...Loaded with lingerie, perfume, champagne, vodka, cheese and sausages Hero of Labor Alexei Stakhanov was back from Moscow last week in his home on the Donbas Steppe, a four-room shack, the walls of which were decorated with poster pictures not of potent Dictator Stalin but of popular War Commissar "Klim" Voroshilov. Squeaked the Stakhanov family phonograph in English: "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf...