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...state dinner at the White House ended the Supreme Court's preholiday session. The Justices and their ladies found the table decorated with pink chrysanthemums, ate a bit of cheese for National Cheese Week, were entertained by Pianist Josef Hofmann and Soprano Frieda Hempel afterward...
...Because Josef Stalin had never deigned to receive the Ambassador of a capitalist power, Moscow waited curiously to see whether he would shake hands with President Roosevelt's alert and smiling Ambassador William Christian Bullitt. As the train carrying Mr. Bullitt and nine-year-old daughter Anne rolled from Poland into Russia this week he was met at the frontier by undersecretaries of the Soviet Foreign Office who pointed out that so much honor had never been done by the Soviet Government to a foreign diplomat before. Banqueted on the spot in the frontier railway station, Guest Bullitt...
...sort of genial grandpa to the whole Soviet Union is stern Josef Stalin's front man, twinkly-eyed, scrubby-bearded Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, whose wife, many Russians think, resembles Mrs. Roosevelt...
...trade fairs. Of Russia's system of government Il Duce has candidly remarked that it is ridiculous for Communists to talk about their ''dictatorship of the proletariat.'' since Russia's dictatorship is quite as much a one-man affair as Italy's. Josef Stalin and Benito Mussolini are the infinities at which the extremes of dictatorship meet. Next to Russia. Italy has the nearest thing to a nation-wide planned economic system, the Mussolini "Corporative State" (TIME, Nov. 20 et ante). In the Rome of the Caesars Communist Litvinoff will be welcomed...
...dictator who does everything with a flourish and is quite apt to do two opposite things at once is Poland's gruff temperamental, walrus-whiskered Marshal Josef Pilsudski. On the same day last week the Polish Government made historic peace overtures to Adolf Hitler-whom most Poles hate and fear-and staged with real tear-gas bombs a sensational sham air raid on Warsaw, a capital to whose citizens "air raid" means a German air raid...