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...fomenting pogroms, according to Swedish press reports from Moscow. Stirred up by Young Communists, citizens of Pedobanya of the River Nemiljana started beating up Jews and attacking their homes. Moscow dispatched a commission of inquiry which reported that in the Ukraine there is "organized and fairly widespread" antiSemitism. In Kiev, the Soviet Ukrainian Capital, anti-Jewish riots were suppressed by Red Army troops...
Typical is the case of S. K. Timoshenko, Second-Rank Red Army Commander (Major General). Last summer he was Assistant Commander at Kiev of the Ukraine Military District in western Russia, adjoining Poland. In the autumn he was appointed Commander in the Caucasus in Russia's south. By winter he was shunted to Kharkov, the industrial centre of the Ukraine, and today he is back at Kiev, now as full Commander-four shifts in less than a year, and at each shift but one Timoshenko has replaced a Red Army officer who was "purged...
Conant, one of the country's leading scholars in the architecture of the Near East, has made intensive studies and re storation drawings in connection with the work of Russian students on the former cathedral of St. Sophia at Kiev and the church of St. Theodosia in Constantinople...
Familiar with the liturgy from his visits with the monks in the ancient monastery on Mt. Athes, he has acted as adviser to the Russians in their restoration of a "lost", Byzantine church in Kiev. Through him a little known period of architecture takes on a vivid interest...
...rapping of knuckles echoed through the land. Chief political officers in the Kiev, Volga and Caucasus districts were reprimanded for "political blindness and carelessness" in failing to detect intriguers in their midst. Two unnamed spies of a "certain foreign intelligence service" were arrested. The West Siberian Geological Trust, ordered to explore for oil in the Kuznetsk Basin in 1935, discovered that a number of their employes had spent 1,300,000 rubles (about $260,000) on drilling two wells where there was obviously not a chance of finding oil. Eleven more railway wreckers, said to be working for Japan, were...