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...years Soviet officials have driven to Moscow station in sweaters and caps, alighted at Warsaw for a cigaret in trim business suits and descended from their sleepers at Berlin attired in faultless cutaways. In a recent issue of Moscow's famed Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet State, appeared striking evidence that Communist austerity is now crumbling in Russia...
Reporting a mass meeting of Moscow's Communist Youth, Izvestia quoted the No. 1 speaker thus: "The time has come, I believe, when it must be obligatory for every girl to carry face powder and perfume! There are certain factors which, when present, cause any woman to lose the elements of coquetry which she should possess. Comrades, we must work to liquidate these factors...
...There can be no holier task than merciless punishment!" clarioned the Party newsorgan Izvestia, lapsing by a slip into pious language. All Soviet papers emphasized that as soon as Dear Friend Sergei's ashes were in their niche, Dictator Stalin mounted Lenin's Tomb beside the Kremlin wall, funeral music changed to the bray of military bands, and crack detachments of the Red Army and Gay-pay-oo troops swung past at the double while 64 airplanes filled the sky, approximately one for every Russian executed...
...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, a swarthy, hot-eyed Georgian who is married to an Eskimo, and plump U. S. Woman Novelist Ursula Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss) agreed last week that Russians are growing more cleanly. The Commissar was quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture...
Stepan Simonovich Dybets, manager of the Soviet Automobile and Tractor Trust, spent several months in the Detroit plants of Henry Ford. Last week in Izvestia he wrote of U. S. v. Soviet industry...