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Soviet Union. The nominal parliamentary and executive bodies of the Soviet Union are actually controlled by the Communist party?the only one permitted to exist?and this is directed by a "political boss," Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, who abstains from exercising public office but is the all-powerful Dictator of Russia. The Soviet Union is technically "a federation of constituent republics," and its far flung administrative network is exceeded in scope only by that of the British Empire. At present Dictator Stalin is pursuing a moderate and conciliatory foreign policy...
...Round and 'round turns slowly a great skeletonized globe. Above it squats a dummy representing God. On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, all three call upon God to grant victory to their respective armies; but when the dummy makes no sign, each monarch begins loudly to protest his own complete innocence of War-guilt...
...probably the most brilliant publicist of the third international (bureau for world Communist propaganda); 3) Lev Borisovitch Kemenev, onetime holder of numerous offices approximating "cabinet rank" in the Soviet Government. That these men - and Zinoviev and Trotsky - have had their careers blasted by the present Dictator of Soviet Russia, JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, is an astounding circumstance which demands explanation. Trotsky, it must be remembered, organized and successfully commanded the "Red Army." Without him the Soviet Regime would have been swept away at its creation. He deserves well of any Russian Communist for much the same reasons that General George Washington...
Poland & Lithuania. From Warsaw straight to the Hotel des Bergues came, last week, Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski. His red and gold salon carriage* blazoning the white eagle of Poland had barely stopped at the Geneva station when French Consul General Ame LeRoy stepped aboard and gently took in tow the tigerish Marshal. Bystanders smiled when this arch-militarist appeared in a civilian suit and soft felt hat. They sobered, however, as his hand snapped automatically to return a salute and he stalked from the station with long, dynamic strides...
Again to Geneva hurried the tired statesmen who gather periodically 'round a green-topped horseshoe table and become the Council of the League of Nations. Looming, last week, for their consideration were the embroiled affairs of two minor dictators: Prime Minister Augustine Valdemaras of Lithuania, and Prime Minister Josef Pilsudski, erratic Pole. Status Quo. Marshal Pilsudski insisted, last week in Warsaw, that he had positive knowledge of recent Lithuanian mobilization against Poland. Commenting to flabbergasted reporters, he charged that Premier Valdemaras of Lithuania is a "man whose proper home is an insane asylum . . . absolutely unaccountable for his acts...