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According to Moscow correspondents, "Klim" was picked because he is "very likeable, completely unambitious and just a bit stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Speechmaking is a great part of every Red Army officer's job and "Klim" on the platform compares favorably with General Johnson. Peasant born and bred to the trade of a foundry workman, Russia's War Commissar spends much time inspecting and orating to collective farms and factories. In 1931, when trouble with Japan first loomed, and again in 1933 ''Klim" inspected not only the whole Soviet Far East frontier but the leading mines, smelters, metallurgical plants, factories and, on his last trip, the colonies of ex-Red soldiers now being established by Dictator Stalin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...public loyalty to Stalin no Russian is louder than Klim who constantly hails the Dictator as "Lenin's true disciple, the Bolshevik of Bolsheviks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

Perhaps because of his personal popularity with the Soviet masses, Klim is often called "Stalin's only rival." Stories constantly circulate that Klim and other Red Army officers strongly resent the privileged position of Stalin's praetorian guard, the OGPU "Special Troops." It has even been stated that the Red Army's rifles are taken away from it every night and locked up in each barracks by the OGPU-doubtless an exaggeration, but not without significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

...optimist, Klim has expressed conviction that the world's next important war, no matter how it starts, will end up as a concerted assault by the Capitalist Powers on the Soviet Union. For this reason he threw his whole influence behind a successful move to draft the Five-Year Plan in such fashion that Russia would achieve self-sufficiency first in the realm of munitions and armaments. As Captain Liddell Hart points out, Soviet battle planes-on which Klim pins so much hope -are of 100% Soviet manufacture and the whole effort of the Red War Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA-JAPAN: The Word Is Out | 2/12/1934 | See Source »

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