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...Dictator Josef Pilsudski let it be known that next month he would travel south, to Italy, to see his old friend Pope Pius XI, onetime (1919-21) Papal Nuncio at Warsaw, and also to see Dictator Benito Mussolini, whom he admires...
...York World, Peter Vischer.* Expert Vischer listened to the old artist speaking of the days, long before the War, when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some of the paintings. Always admired first by horsemen, then by artists who saw the anatomical precision, the speed and effort of the running horses, the Academician composition and texture of his work, Artist Koch was rediscovered by the World's polo expert, whose article...
...small & bulgy man stepped of the S.S. Rotterdam in Manhattan last week, faced a battery of cameras, obligingly revealed a shock of springy red hair, grinned far into his freckled cheeks and quickly left the pier. No customs officers molested his baggage, no questions were asked, for he was Josef Willem Mengelberg,* high man in Holland, come once more with diplomatic passport to conduct the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Pressmen followed him, asked hurriedly of concerts abroad, of his villa in Switzerland (with its five subcellars), learned that he had held seance with Conductor Arturo Toscanini at Lake Como, discussed...
...continuous outspoken opposition to the ruling oligarchy, headed by Josef Vissarionovitch Stalin, the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Third (Communist) International last week deposed Lev (Leon) Davidovitch Trotzky and his aide one Vuyovitch...
Since the death of Lenin in 1924, Leon Trotzky has been pushed more and more into the background. A sick man, he was indefatiguable in support of an active Bolshevising policy designed to please the younger rank and file of the Communist Party. Old-timers like Josef Stalin and Gregory Zinoviev, remembering that Trotzky joined the party only in 1917, began to attack him as a "upstart," and after Lenin's death it was not long before he was ousted from the Commissariat of War and reduced to political impotence by his powerful enemies. Even the Communist Party disavowed...