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Copies of two messages were then read. One was from U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Michail Kalinin of the U. S. S. R.'s Central Executive Committee (see p. 11 and p. 14), one from Kalinin back to Roosevelt...
...Comrade Kalinin circumspectly replied: "I have always considered most abnormal and regrettable a situation wherein, during the past 16 years, two great republics . . . have lacked the usual methods of communication and have been deprived of the benefits which such communications could give. . . . I shall take the liberty further to express the opinion that the abnormal situation . . . has an unfavorable effect not only on the interests of the two States concerned, but also on the general international situation. . . . The Soviet Government will be represented by Mr. M. M. Litvinov, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who will come to Washington...
...write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed scrubby-bearded, gold-spectacled Michail Ivanovich Kalinin (K in the cut above) who has as little power as the President of France and is in effect "President of Russia," though his proper Soviet title is President of the Standing Committee of the Union Central Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Still glowing from his warm reception. Farmer Campbell described the Soviet President, Comrade Kalinin, as "a fine gentleman." doubtless unaware that "gentleman" is a fighting word among Reds. Gratefully he recalled "one of the finest dinners we had ever eaten, including several different kinds of wine. The other guests at the table were amazed that Mrs. Campbell and I did not drink and teased us a great deal about Prohibition in the United States. . . . Before the evening was over we had a typical Russian sleigh ride through the thick dark forests. Mrs. Kalinin took me with her, while the rest...
...Russians, who constantly read in the Soviet Press that President & Mrs. Kalinin are extremely frugal folk and that she has managed successively a textile factory and two big collective farms in different parts of the Union during the past few years, Farmer Campbell's chatter would recall Moscow rumors that the President keeps a vivacious mistress who might easily be mistaken by Mr. & Mrs. Campbell for his wife. In Russia, however, the President does not matter. Josef Stalin matters. Last week another part of Farmer Campbell's book-the part in which he describes his meeting with...