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...nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar Mikoyan; President of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic Petrovsky; and Candidate x, locally prominent...
...rapidly followed all over the Soviet Union, candidates everywhere withdrawing in favor of the candidate favored by the Communist Party and the Stalin State. In all Russia last week there were only two constituencies in which there was more than one candidated he will be elected anyway!" President Kalinin recently retorted (TIME, Dec. 6): "It is a grave mistake to think this. ... If in our country in a number of places candidates withdraw their names for the benefit of some candidate, it is the result of their social kinship and common political purpose. . . . It is a sign of socialism last...
...nominations for the 1,143 parliamentary seats to be filled on December 12 by the first election under Russia's new Constitution (TIME, Nov. 8) disclosed last week that in nearly every case only one candidate had been nominated for each seat. According to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin in a speech at Leningrad last week, the average Russian is asking himself: "What is the use of my going to vote? There is only one candidate, and he will be elected anyway...
...Soviet citizens were executed for "Trotskyism" last week. Dispatches passed by the Moscow censor described Joseph Stalin's hair as "rapidly greying," but the Dictator appeared unruffled as he took his place for a meeting of the Central Executive Committee. With him on the dais sat President Kalinin, Premier Molotov and Defense Commissar Voroshilov. while in a box just below the dais sat Foreign Commissar Litvinoff. Business of this august Bolshevik gathering in the onetime throne room of the Tsars was to take preliminary steps toward setting a date and perfecting details for the first Russian election under...
...muffed and antagonized the first Roosevelt Ambassador to Russia, famed "Bill" Bullitt,-was now doing everything possible to please the President's second envoy to Bolshevik-land. It was presently announced that Ambassador Davies, instead of wearing full evening dress when presenting his credentials to Puppet-President Michael Kalinin (as do other members of the Moscow diplomatic corps), would wear with New Deal unostentation "simple morning clothes-silk hat, striped trousers and swallow-tailed coat" as worn by Mr. Roosevelt at his Inaugural (see p. 9). Getting at once into the peculiar atmosphere of Moscow, which...