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With these new-and in Egypt's case reckless-demands, the West faced the possibility of a power vacuum in an area where Russia, since Czarist days, has been trying to expand. For the U.S., the situation recalled a parallel: Greece in 1947. Then, declining power had forced...
Died. Abraham Cahan, 91, author (The Rise of David Levinsky), co-founder and editor (1897-1950) of Manhattan's Jewish Daily Forward (circ. 150,000), one of the most influential foreign-language (Yiddish) papers in the U.S. At 21, because of his radical political sympathies, he left Czarist Russia for Manhattan's lower East Side. Through the columns of the Forward, he presented democratic socialism as well as lighter reading in terms that ill-educated immigrants could understand, fought to ameliorate sweatshop conditions in the garment trades, became a leading anti-Communist in the Jewish world...
...then Commissar of Nationalities and engaged in a bitter and bloody civil war. His first wife, Katerina Svanidze, had died four years before, and Stalin had taken as his second wife his secretary, Nadezhda Allilueva, the young daughter of an old-line Bolshevik who had once sheltered him from Czarist police. A year or so after their marriage, Nadezhda Allilueva presented her husband with a son, red-haired like his mother...
Sergei V. Iliushin, 57, rags-to-riches designer of the legendary IL-2 (Stormovik). A poor peasant's son in Czarist days, he trekked 300 miles to Moscow at the age of 15 to get into aviation. Rose slowly through the ranks, first as mechanic then as chief mechanic. When orders came down for an attack plane, Iliushin's was the only design smaller than a B17. After the war, turned out twin-engine (IL-12) and four-engine (IL-18) transports that look something like U.S. Convairs and Boeing Stratocruisers. Now working on a fast, twin...
...army necessary to defend [Russian] independence," and goes all the way back to 1920 (when Britain, the U.S. and France made a halfhearted attempt to erase the Bolshevik Revolution) for an instance of "imperialist aggression" against Russia. To justify the Communist regime, Pravda also reaches back, almost sentimentally, to "Czarist exploiters and landowners" (all of whom are long dead or out of Russia). Pravda repeats the old line that: 1) MVD labor camps and censorships exist only for "enemies of the people . . . terrorists and assassins"; 2) Russians have freely chosen the Communist party to rule their land, etc. Concludes Pravda...