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Smuggled out of Russia and scanned with breathless interest by Reds abroad last week was a manifesto against Dictator Josef Stalin which Reds in Russia have been slipping fearfully from palm to palm...
Perhaps because facilities are lacking to use most of Dnieprostroy's giant power, Dictator Josef Stalin, stern realist, stayed away from the "successful opening." From Moscow he wired: DETAINED BY WORK...
Actually Comrade Josef Stalin, as Secretary of the Party, was bending and shaping the Right and Left factions to conform to his "party line." Leaks from the Kremlin pictured Right Communists as urging "a further retreat to private trade in foodstuffs and essentials" while Left Communists urged "a further advance, based if necessary on confiscation of farm products." In the end Comrade Stalin, whose "party line" is broad enough to touch both these extremes when he dictatorially pleases, succeeded in shushing all factions, retaining his control of Russia...
...Director Josef von Sternberg wrote the story, quit Paramount and took Miss Dietrich with him when the story was rewritten, later returned to direct her in it. Von Sternberg, who has repeatedly denied being born Joe Stern in Brooklyn, opens with a sylvan swimming scene in Germany's Black Forest (300 miles from Berlin) where U. S. hikers surprise Berlin actresses off for the afternoon. One hiker (Herbert Marshall) marries Marlene Dietrich, takes her to the U. S. They have a child. Marshall contracts radium poisoning in his scientific research. To send him to a Dresden doctor, Marlene returns...
Thomas Stearns Eliot '10, well-known American poet; Josef Alois Schumpeter, formerly finance minister of Austria; Wilhelm Kohler, a noted authority on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages; and Pierre Caron, chief of the section of modern history in the French national archives, head the list of distinguished visitors who will occupy professorships at Harvard during the coming year...