Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus it will be seen that the Soviet Government believes it buried the body (not the ashes) of John Reed behind the tomb of Lenin. But it should be noted that the same document quoted above states that it had buried the ashes of Paxton Hibben in a niche in the Kremlin wall...
From a Japanese University, this letter of praise in contained in an oblong, black box lined with gold, and is in the form of an ancient Roman scroll. Only a portion of the document, which appears to be several feet long, is displayed...
Merchant of Venice: ". . .The character of Shylock fascinates critics and has lured them into endless mazes of debate. One thing is clear, however: "The Merchant of Venice" is no anti-Semitic document; Shakespeare was not attacking the Jewish people when he gave Shylock the villain's role. If so, he was attaching the Moors in "Titus Andronicus", the Spaniards in "Much Ado", the Italians in "Cymbeline", the Viennese in "Measure for Measure", the Danes in "Hamlet", the Britons in "King Lear", the Scots in "Macbeth", and the English in "Richard the Third...
...anyone can remember, but the Soviet Union and the Japanese Empire were all ready to sign once again last week their periodic treaty whereby Japanese pay for the privilege of fishing in the Far East waters of the Soviet (TIME, March 5, 1934). With the 1936 version of this document agreed to by both countries and an hour appointed for its signature in Moscow last week, abruptly Comrade Litvinoff refused to sign. Moreover, last week when a foreigner was sentenced to death for the first time in the history of Soviet propaganda trials (TIME, Aug. 31), protests by the German...
...long-lost memoirs,* Caulaincourt cleared up a major Napoleonic mystery with his account of Ragusa's treachery, clarified another with his account of Napoleon's attempted suicide a week later. Last year the first volume of this extraordinary document was offered U. S. readers under the title With Napoleon in Russia. Last week the second and concluding volume retraced the stages of the Emperor's decline to the time of his departure for Elba. Together the two books constitute an amazing picture of the smashing of a world power, the first volume more readable as a connected...