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...cope. The implacability of a good bomb thrower (TIME, Sept. 4) showed itself inappropriate, to say the least, when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind the façade of the U. S. S. R., the great Socialist world power, a late Roman corruption grew fantastically until to the west the façade seemed torn open by the "purge" of 1936-37, blasted by the Pact...
SIDOFADO RE FA SO SIDOMIFA...
...Left Bank haircut and beret, she confesses to being scared of heights and crowds until she gets her head under the black cloth. Her dizziest shots are nevertheless sharp, hard and sense-making, though her best are meditative portraits of comely, plain old buildings, dingy shop fronts, chapfallen façades selected from the vast 19th-Century underbrush among Manhattan's skyscrapers...
SHANGHAI, Tuesday, Oct. 11--Gen. Chang Fa-Kwei, China's famed "ironsides" commander, claimed the greatest victory of the Chinese-Japanese war today, asserting that he had virtually wiped out the Japanese 101st division from Tokyo in a series of smashing counter attacks on the Nanchang front southeast of Hankow...
Most of the political parties and 60% of Poles entitled to vote boycotted the last election in 1935, because the "Polish Republic" is a mere façade for Army Dictatorship, although technically under the Constitution dictatorial powers are vested in a civilian professor of chemistry, President Ignacy Moscicki. Army Strong Man Smigly-Rydz hopes he can now coax the boycotting parties back into making a show of national unity at the polls, but not of course into ousting the Army clique of which he is the head...