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Tall Dictator Josef Stalin recently sent his smallish, smart handyman Andrey Andreevich Andreev to plug and patch the biggest 1931 gap in Russia's Five Year Plan?the failure of Russian railways to haul their planned quotas (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the new Commissar for Transport showed himself a chip off Stalin's block, plugged and patched ruthlessly right and left...
...Fears by the Great Powers of Soviet intervention in Manchuria were considerably calmed last week by eye witness reports and official reassurances issued at Moscow by Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov. Hotly he emphasized the pledge of Russia's neutral intentions given two weeks ago (TIME...
...past Stalin. Of the marchers 40,000 were picked Red Army troops. They marched and wheeled in perfect parade formation to a crunching accompaniment of fast Red Army caterpillar tanks, some mounting 2-in. guns. Leading the parade on a prancing cavalry charger rode red-faced, ham-fisted War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, bowing and grinning, cheered as loudly on this day as the Red Dictator himself...
Petition. During the Embassy garden party a cablegram was handed Lady Astor. She read it, walked across a terrace, dropped to a half-kneeling position and handed it to Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Litvinov. Cried she dramatically: "I come to you with a petition as the peasants were wont to do before the Tsar!" The message began: IN THE NAME OF HUMANITARIAN PRINCIPLES PLEASE HELP MY WIFE IN MOSCOW. . . . It was signed by one Dmitri Pavlovich Krynine, onetime Soviet expert on roadbuilding sent to the U. S. to study local methods, who was injured in a motor accident, decided...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...