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First U. S. newsgatherer to obtain a formal interview from Dictator Josef Stalin was United Pressman Eugene Lyons (TIME, Dec. 1 & 8, 1930). First and only correspondent to chat with the grim Dictator's sweet-faced, cackling old mother was Hubert Renfro ("The Red Trade Menace") Knickerbocker (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Last week cheerful Ralph W. Barnes, comparatively a newcomer in Moscow and correspondent of Manhattan's Herald Tribune, was first to report Mrs. Josef Stalin, First Red Lady. He reported...
...Moscow, finally, something happened last week which made Washington, Wall Street, Berlin and possibly Ambassador Willys take notice. With Dictator Josef Stalin sitting in, the State Planning Commission drastically modified the "Second Five-Year Plan," drafted last summer to go into effect at the end of the First Five-Year Plan...
...Rome. Laid in Alt Wien, this play has to do with the ex-mistress (Lynn Fontanne) of a gaudy, deposed Habsburg (Alfred Lunt, her husband). After the revolution Actress Fontanne had married an eminent psychoanalyst, tried to forget her royal lover. On the 100th anniversary of Emperor Franz Josef's birth, however, a reunion of dowdy royalty takes place at Frau Lucher's hotel, where once nothing was too good for them. Habsburg and ex-mistress attend. In Frau Lucher many a spectator could catch the likeness of eccentric old Anita Sacher, at whose Viennese hostelry defunct Austrian...
...Bankers' Association of Poland in a manifesto to the public, was becoming "sterilized" in Polish pockets, socks and safety deposit boxes-a dreadful thing to have happen. When Poles continued doggedly to buy and hoard gold, the Bankers' Association warned Finance Minister Jan Pilsudski (brother of Dictator Josef) that there was but one thing to do: the State must ban gold imports into Poland by any individual or bank except the Bank of Poland...
Such promises would have to be somewhat discounted. Russia does not want an Asiatic war just now. But Josef Stalin does have 5,000 Red Army troops encamped along the Russo-Manchurian frontier...