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...main street of Mukden's former modern Japanese area is now "Stalin Prospect." The Yamato Hotel is "Hotel of the Intourist Travel Agency of Moscow, U.S.S.R." Near Mukden's railway station is a granite-mounted Red Army tank, a memorial to Russian soldiers. Russian and Chinese flags fly together everywhere, but there is little doubt which flag dominates...
...This, Madam," said the imperial ghost, "is no strange place to me. It is our former estate of Livadia. Allow me to cite the Intourist's Pocket Guide to the Soviet Union: 'This estate occupies 350 hectares of land, and includes a large park, two palaces and many vineyards. The newer palace [you are standing on its roof], built in 1911 by Krasnov in the style of the Italian Renaissance, is of white Inkerman stone, and contains nearly a hundred rooms...
When Graebner called on Ambassador William H. Standley in Kuibyshev, the Ambassador suggested that Graebner visit the nearby Greek Orthodox church: "It's one of the things you can do in Kuibyshev." The Intourist guide to whom Graebner applied for information about hours of services said she had not the faintest idea...
Rich, civic-minded President Judge William Curtis Bok of Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas, who has broken precedents by: 1) refusing to enter the family business (Curtis Publishing); 2) abandoning Main Line Republicanism for the New Deal; 3) hiring out as an Intourist chauffeur in Leningrad, shattered another by becoming the first judge to serve on a Federal jury. Explaining that his calendar was nearly cleared, earnest Judge Bok confided: "I've always wanted to know what went on in the mind of a juror and now is my chance to find...
...case of famed Ruth Marie Rubens (TIME, Feb. 7, et ante). Mr. Davies advised Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky that U. S. relations with the U. S. S. R. would become unduly strained if jailed U. S. Citizen Rubens, arrested in Moscow on the night of December 9 in the Intourist Hotel National, was not permitted to see U. S. diplomatic representatives in Moscow, as demanded .by Secretary Hull. Repeatedly in the past J. Stalin & Co. have shown unusual favors to aggressively capitalist Lawyer Davies and his General Foods heiress wife (TIME, March 15). Not long after the Davies-Troyanovsky conversation...