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...Night is an autobiography, but through its pages slinks many a Communist bigwig. There is Bulgarian Comrade Georgi Dimitrov, now secretary of the Communist International, once hero of the Reichstag fire trial. Valtin reveals him as the flabby, dandified, over-perfumed head (for many years) of the Comintern's West European underground section. There is sly, foxy Heinz Neumann, who plotted the 1927 uprising in Canton, China. Once Stalin's darling, he was shot in Stalin's Purge. There is George Mink, ex-Philadelphia taxi driver, Communist organizer of New York's water front, OGPU gunman...
Never since World War II started has there been less gun-firing and more tongue-clattering than last week. One after another, high-calibre speechmakers like Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler, George VI, Albert Lebrun, Georgi Dimitroff, Clement Attlee, the Pope, Viscount Halifax, the King of the Belgians, the Queen of The Netherlands, Neville Chamberlain plus generals, dopesters and yes-men sounded off, until old David Lloyd George complained that you did not ask who was winning the war nowadays, but who had said what...
...Comintern manifesto declared that "the ruling classes of Britain, France and Germany are waging war for world domination," while hotheaded Georgi Dimitroff, Bulgarian-born Secretary of the Comintern, scape-goat-elect of the Reichstag fire and personal enemy of Field Marshal Hermann Göring, adopted a "plague-o'-both-your-houses" attitude. In a signed article in the quarterly Communist International, Tovarish Dimitroff performed the neatest logical trick of the week: he called Germany the original aggressor in World War II, said that after the Nazis signed their famed non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union the aggressors...
Boris Babochkin, who plays the title role, is one of the Russia's outstanding actors and holds the title, "Peoples Artist of the Republic." Especial credit goes to the two brothers who directed the film, Sergei and Georgi Vasilyev...
...your Feb. 21 issue you refer to Georgi Dimitroff's methods in his Reichstag-fire trial as "indomitable, singlehanded, fighting methods" which caused the German Supreme Court to acquit "the famed Bulgarian Communist." In fact-gathering FORTUNE'S article on British Foreign Policy last March he was "a half-witted Communist stooge." Maybe I am quibbling . . . but would TIME Inc. mind settling its family difference on this point and reveal his status...