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Seemingly last week Japan was content to let the negotiations remain deadlocked at this point, encouraged Manchukuo to bait Russia. Instead of the release of Soviet railwaymen demanded by Ambassador Yurenev, 70 more were arrested in Manchukuo. In Moscow, where Josef Stalin is not anxious for a fight, correspondents were told that "Russia will not move unless her soil is trod upon." In Tokyo testy old War Minister Senjuro Hayashi, a lion in the field though some what of a peacock in a photographer's studio, blustered...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...
Five hundred poets and prose writers in 80 Soviet languages and dialects were welcomed to Moscow last week by unromantic Josef Stalin as "engineers of the human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian classics. The Soviet Press, however, firmly declared with Dictator Stalin that the purpose of the Congress is "to apply scientific methods to the creation of literature...
...That pamphlet made our Vladimir," his admirers in Sarajevo solemnly declare. "It fired the heart of every brave man amongst us against the tyrant Franz Josef and his heir...
From dynamic Josef Stalin languid parlor Socialists get no help, but violent death-defying Socialists stir his sympathies. Last week he took under the Soviet Government's protection refugee children of Austrian Socialists who had the boldness to take arms and do battle in Vienna last winter against Austria's "Christian Fascist" Government (TIME, Feb. 26). Into Moscow rumbled a flower-decked train pack-jammed with Austrian moppets most of whose fathers had died fighting in the Schutzbund (Socialist storm troops). By twos and threes the children have escaped to Czechoslovakia where Soviet agents put them on the special train...