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Observer for President Roosevelt was Second Secretary Loy Henderson in charge of the U. S. Embassy in the absence of Ambassador William Bullitt. On a dais four judges in Soviet Army khaki took their places. President of the Court was thickset Judge Vassily Jakovlevich Ulrich, famed ever since he presided at the Soviet trial of British Metropolitan-Vickers engineers (TIME, April 24, 1933). Somewhat less light of step and pantherlike than usual entered Chief Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky, longtime pouncer in broadcast Bolshevik trials. At the left of Judge Ulrich was the box of 16 prisoners around whom stood Red Army...
...Kirov?"- "Yes." "Did you organize the plan to kill Stalin?" "Yes. I am guilty of every charge in the indictment." A few minutes later two other prisoners became tangled in argument with each other as both were rapidly confessing. A third prisoner named Bakayev, a bearded figure in a khaki blouse, arose and loudly interrupted, "I know that Zinoviev ordered his own secretary to kill Stalin!" Said Zinoviev: "I acknowledge that." "The secretary," breathlessly continued Bakayev, "instead of killing Stalin killed himself!" Lecture by Kamenev, With the air of a professor addressing pupils of none too great intelligence and striving...
...planes were Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers with their identification marks carefully painted out. Each was jammed with cases of machine guns, ammunition, hand grenades, machine-gun belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop...
Unsuitable for wear in Ethiopia is the Fascist black shirt which absorbs heat rather than reflecting it. Last week young Marshal Graziani, energetic new Viceroy of Ethiopia, already had native moppets of tenderest age drilling as a pickaninny Balilla (see cut). From Rome arrived brand-new khaki uniforms for Ethiopian "Sons of the Wolf" to be worn with fetching green scarfs...
...feet wet. At 10 a. m. Market Street was hip-deep in swirling water. Workers frantically rushed records and goods to upper floors or slogged for home. As plate-glass windows gave way, leaving rich stores open for looting, 1,500 National Guardsmen marched into the district, threw a khaki line from end to end of Grant Street, the Triangle's base. Up & up surged the dirty water until the marquees of stores and theatres were barely visible, and rowboats were bobbing over the tops of submerged automobiles. Two of the Duquesne Power & Light Co.'s major plants...