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...reputation of amassing wealth by other means than tilling the soil. Under the Tsars Jews were practically debarred from landholding and forced into the occupations of middlemen and money lenders. Under the Soviets, land has been placed freely at the disposal of Jews, while at the same time communal distribution of pro duce has ruined them as middle men. Result: Russian Jews are leaving the cities in large numbers, migrating to take up farming in the fertile Ukraine, Since many of the Communist leaders are Jews, the new Jewish farmer class has been extended numerous concessions by the State...
...half of the Chinese Republic is now controlled by our Communal armies which are supreme in the provinces of Kwantung, Kwangsi, Kweichow, Hunan, Szechwan, Hupeh and Kansu, with part control of Honan and Shensi provinces...
...until last week were ornithologists particularly conscious of a truly extraordinary feature of stork ethics that is familiar folklore among European peasants. Storks enforce their code of sex morality by vigilant communal action. Ornithologist Annie France-Harar arrived in Berlin from a stork-studying trip to Greece and described the actual execution of a stork adulteress by 50 of her incensed neighbors. They met in the air over her nest, where she sat trembling with full knowledge of her sin and the penalty. Down they swooped upon her, their plunging, hacking bills soon rending her wicked body to bits. Miss...
Podestas. The Cabinet announced its decision to suspend indefinitely by decree all provincial, communal and municipal elections. An explanatory communique was issued...
Internal Soviet Economics. Institutions of a "capitalistic" nature are slowly being reintroduced into Russia. An example in point is money. Up to 1921, the Soviet authorities continuously debased the ruble by inflation until it all but vanished, with the avowed intention of employing thereafter a system of communal barter into which money would not enter. Since 1921 a reversal of this policy has resulted in the creation of a new State Bank and the introduction of the Tchervonets (plural "Tchervontsy"), a monetary unit equivalent to 10 pre-war gold rubles...