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...editors (Thomas Mann's son, Klaus, and German Novelist Hermann Kesten) have packed scraps of novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...
Shelter. City rents in Russia do not vary according to neighborhood but according to monthly income. In Moscow a person in the middle-income bracket pays 2% rubles per square meter of floor space, whether on eight-laned Gorki street or in a converted church, and no one is allowed to occupy over 9 square meters (96 sq. ft.). Since apartments average around 60 square meters of space, single persons and small families have to share apartments with others...
...Kremlin. From the airport a seven-car motorcade led by a black Packard limousine rolled on to Leningrad Highway past a huge statue of Lenin and mammoth apartment buildings with ragged faces, where war priorities had halted construction work. Nearer the city the highway merged into twelve-laned Gorki Street. Soldiers queuing up to buy afternoon newspapers and women carrying net sacks with bread and vegetables scarcely noticed the cars. But as the first limousine rolled down Gorki Street hill and turned west along the north wall of the Kremlin, U.S. and British correspondents recognized-in the light...
...Although the upper stories of Maxim Gorki Fort are in our hands and the battle line has moved some 1,400 yards forward. Soviet soldiers deep under ground in the lower stories continue to resist. We have sent negotiators to explain to them that further resistance is useless, but they won't come out. . . ." So it was at every fort and pillbox, on all the stinking, bloody hills around Sevastopol, where the dead rotted in the sun and there were always more Germans and Rumanians to be killed. So it was at Balaklava, eight miles south of the city...