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This suggested to most Moscowites that Yagoda may not have his confession-spouting day in court as a "Trotskyist," may simply be shot by the Ogpu. The Old Bolshevik who knows most about Soviet law is Eugene Bronislavovich Pashukanis, Vice-Commissar of Justice, Director of the Institute of Soviet Construction & Law, editor of The Soviet State, law journal, and author of the Soviet Union's chief standard works on jurisprudence used in its law schools. Suddenly last week all law books by Pashukanis had to be confiscated, Soviet law students and their professors were left stranded. Reason: Old Bolshevik...
...this, Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, Soviet Defense Commissar, replied with a speech promising that "when there shall be no further need for uniforms, the Red Army will put on civilian clothes!" After dinner the Red Army leaders were entertained by an Embassy showing of the musicomedy cinema Rose Marie. Three nights previously other Bolshevik bigwigs had been regaled with Naughty Marietta. "Each soldier in the Soviet Army," Red guests told Host Davies, whose wife's fortune came from food, "now receives 5,000 calories per day, whereas in the Tsarist Army the ration was but 3,300 calories...
Sensation of the Moscow week, apart from the unprecedented behavior of Bolshevik bigwigs who never before have attended Embassy functions, was an abnormally candid speech "made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov...
...Stalin now prefers to call Soviet secret police, went last week with Ambassador Davies in the special train put at his disposal to tour Soviet industrial centres in the primarily agricultural Ukraine. His private car, furnished free by the Government, was what Russians now know as a "Commissar's Saloon Car," for really big Reds today have a private car thrown in with their State jobs. There was an ordinary sleeping car for the NKVD and correspondents, another for the Davies party to use at night and a diner in which all food was exclusively the quick-frozen...
Next day the Commissar's car took the Ambassador to the metallurgical centre of the Ukraine near the great Dnepr River hydroelectric dam. In the heat of Russia's Revolution, some demanding comrades from the Ukraine called on the great Lenin and wanted to know what the Ukraine was going to get out of all this...