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...globe from Europe to Alaska, bound by polar wastes in the north and the world's largest mountain ranges in the south, Siberia has potential mineral, agricultural and electric-power resources beyond calculation. But its winters are the coldest on earth. In the past, both Czarist and Soviet regimes have had to force people to live and work there. Tens of millions of hapless human slaves, cutting timber, tilling the bleak steppe, or digging through the permafrost (in some places 75 ft. deep) to get at the gold, iron, coal, copper, nickel, uranium, titanium, magnesium and bauxite have laid...
...accusation in the current issue of Life magazine that Stalin was once a Russian czarist spy is "improbable" and "impossible to verify," Martin E. Malia, assistant professor of History, asserted yesterday...
...revelation" that Stalin was a spy for the czarist secret police, Okhrana, appears in article by Alexander Orlov, one of the Soviet Union's highest ranking NKVD officers in the 1930's. Orlov offers his story as an explanation for the recent about face of Russian leaders in denouncing Stalin...
Malia also attacked the authenticity of a letter claimed by its discoverer to prove Stalin's connection with the czarist regime until 1913. Isaac don Levine, author of the first major biography of Stalin, claims to have found an Okhrana letter, written in 1913, in which Stalin's "spying" activities are discussed...
...CZARIST BONDS will no longer be listed on the American Stock Exchange. The exchange feels that the U.S. Government's decision to pay bondholders an estimated 2? on the dollar from seized Russian funds (TIME, March 19) may make it impossible to keep track of claims on the bonds as they are traded...