Word: commissars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time was rewarded by a telephoned summons to the office of the Communist Central Committee. With him he took as interpreter Charles Malamuth of the Slavic department, University of California, a Moscow visitor. For more than an hour the two talked with Stalin, joined for a time by Commissar of War Voroshilov...
...broad smile almost as full of teeth as Roosevelt's and, like Roosevelt's, overshadowed by his shaggy mustache. He speaks slowly . . . with broad, oriental gestures. . . . His mind seems automatically to organize its materials into simple forms and words comprehensive to any working man. . . . Stalin and [War Commissar Clemence] Voroshilov [present during the interview] addressed each other by the familiar 'thou'. . . . Intimacy and informality pervade [Stalin's] entire establishment . . . immaculately clean and hushed as a library, contrasting in these respects with the usual noisy, littered Russian offices...
Revolts, Mutinies, Counter-Revolution. Both War Commissar Voroshilov and Comrade Stalin denied all current rumors of revolts or mutinies in Russia, affirmed with equal vehemence their belief that persons leagued with the secret agents of capitalist states have recently been caught red-handed in Russia plotting counterrevolution...
...realization of which is scarcely conceivable in the present political and moral situation of the world." President Hoover was represented last week by Ambassador (to Belgium) Hugh Gibson. "We shall contribute," said Mr. Gibson, "a great deal of silence." Dictator Josef Stalin of Soviet Russia was represented by Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. "This is the last time that Soviet Russia will send a delegation to this Preparatory Conference," he declared, recalling that three years ago he submitted a proposal for "absolute disarmament" of all nations, and later a proposal for "50% disarmament," both of which were rejected...
...symbolical, black, red, and grey -black and red being the Soviet mourning colors with grey as the workers' color." On the lowest step of the tomb stood the leaders of Communism last week to watch the parade. Dictator Josef Stalin in a soldier's kepi and greatcoat; Commissar of War Clemence Voroshilov; Commissar of Education Andrei Bubnov, et al. Correspondents watching the parade noted two facts: 1) that the uniformed Russian army was noticeably better drilled, better equipped than it was a year ago; 2) that cartoons and effigies of the enemies of Communism carried...