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Moscow, festooned in red, was the centre of proletarian manifestations. Here 30,000 field-grey soldiers marched past Mikhail Ivanovitch Kalinin, so-called President of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics, who took the salute from the top of the Lenin tomb in Red Square. Behind the troops came 250,000 picked workers, preceded by a monster, two-headed green dragon. One of the heads represented, monocle & all, Sir Austen Chamberlain, British Foreign Secretary; the other, Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of Italy, with the Fascist swastika above his forehead...
Hour after hour the procession wended its way through the square. A short speech by M. Kalinin was the signal for the singing of the International, which was taken up by the miles of parading populace. Simultaneously, the Kremlin*guns roared salvos of blank shells for six minutes, their blue smoke spiraling upwards around the pinnacles of St. Basil's Church and over the tower of the Spasski Gate...
Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin (pronounced Karlee'neen), first chairman of the Soviet Union Central Executive Committee, leaned back in his chair, his face wreathed in gratification. There on his desk in his private office in the Kremlin, Moscow, was an invitation from the City of Boston to participate in its third centenary celebration in 1930. So high an honor could not be refused. With a grin and a flourish the invitation was accepted, a delegation named to proceed to Boston for the event...
Meanwhile at Warsaw, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland personally telegraphed to Chairman Michael Ivanovitch Kalinin of the Union Central Executive Committee,- at Moscow...
...platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned to the Polish officials...