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...born Meer Genokh Moiseevich Vallakh, the son of a Jewish bank clerk in Polish Russia. On police dockets of Czarist Russia and most of the countries of Europe, he was many aliases-Ludwig Nietz, Maxim Harrison, David Mordecai, Felix. To Lenin, Stalin and the other Old Bolsheviks, he was Papasha (papa dear), one of the trusted inner circle. The rest of the world got to know him as Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff. For two confusing decades, he was one of Russia's two faces -the false...
Family Background: Born Feb. 16, 1904, in Milwaukee, of Scotch-Irish parents. His great-uncle, George Kennan, traveled by dog sled 5,000 miles through Czarist Russia on an abortive project to link Moscow and the U.S. by a Siberian-Alaskan telegraph line, wrote an anti-Czarist book, Siberia and the Exile System...
...Hertz's letters carry no complaints. They say that Premier Stalin has converted an old Czarist mansion in" the Caucasus into a modern physics laboratory. There, along with some 200 Russian and German experts, Dr. Hertz is continuing his research in atomic energy, radar and supersonics. Scientists who used to exchange information with Dr. Hertz believe the Times's report. But after long collaboration with the German physicist, they have little hope of ever again sharing any technical information. Further communication with Dr. Hertz must be addressed "c/o General Delivery, Moscow...
...same is true of Russian building; the conditions under which most urban Russians live is worse than anything I have seen, even in the worst spots of Dublin or of Naples. The overcrowding is incredible - I found eleven families living in one small church. The houses that survive from Czarist days, of stucco or wood, have been untouched since the Revolution; they tilt and sag and crumble till it would be impossible to believe that they are inhabited, were it not for the lace curtains inside each window...
Lanky Bishop Jonah, 57, onetime officer in the Czarist army, studied for the priesthood in the U.S. For the past three years he has distinguished himself as dean of San Francisco's cathedral. His Washington diocese will number some 10,000, about 1,000 of them in the city itself...