Word: commissars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...host of complications, mostly about Russia's half interest in the Chinese Eastern Railway. Last week China's statesman Mo Teh-hui was busy tying up loose ends of the Peace in Moscow. Statesman Mo called at the Soviet Foreign Office, got down to exceedingly brass tacks with Commissar Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov who hates and professes to scorn Statesman Stimson (TIME...
...Moscow, when the 50th birthday of Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov rolled around last week a public subscription was opened. With the proceeds three thumping birthday presents will be bought, presented to Comrade Voroshilov: a dirigible, "several combat planes,"? a submarine...
...city of Lugansk, where he was born, became Voroshilovsk. Throughout the Soviet Union several hundred organizations and buildings were also named last week after Comrade Voroshilov. The entire populace, taught, by the Soviet press that a "Capitalistic invasion" of Russia may come at any hour, looks to the Commissar of War as its prospective savior, cheers him wildly when he rides out hard-eyed and unsmiling, his breast bedight with three Soviet medals, his bul let head surmounted by the turnip-shaped Red Army helmet...
...Moscow the knowing say that Comrade Voroshilov was hand-picked for the job of Commissar of War by Dictator Josef Stalin because, even with his three medals* "he possesses an almost total lack of ambition...
Arguments by many another great statesman were equally weasled. In the midst of the proceedings Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov quit the Commission last month, denounced Mr. Gibson and the rest as "hypocrites bent on conserving the armaments of their countries!" flounced off to Milan for a secret talk with Italy's Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, finally returned to Moscow leaving Russia represented at Geneva by pensive, hyperintellectual Anatoliy Lunacharsky. (He. as Soviet Commissar of Education, released an "educational film" in which talented Mme Lunacharsky played the role of the seduced heroine...