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Flimsily built, most of Tokyo and every other Japanese city is so much pasteboard and matchwood, ready to be kindled by incendiary bombs. Fire is the worst part of every Japanese earthquake. Not being able to count on an earthquake, "Klim" Voroshilov has built up one of the great air armadas of the world. According to Britain's ablest writer on war books for civilians, Captain B. H. Liddell Hart: "In case of war with Japan, Voroshilov . . . is said to be favoring the idea of conducting it purely by air action. If so, he will have the credit...
...when a war flames up almost overnight somewhere along the Siberian-Mongolian border, setting afire some 750,000 sq. mi. of territory, the man of the minute, from the Russian viewpoint, will be handsome Soviet Army, Navy & Air "Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. As Commissar of the Red Navy, red-faced "Klim'' Voroshilov commands a ludicrous force of four battleships, six cruisers, eight modern submarines and some 50 other small boats, mostly anti quated. So superior is Japan on the sea that, should the Great Powers remain neutral, she could not only take Vladivostok and Russia's Siberian...
...Moscow "Klim" as Army Commissar knows well enough that the Red Army, second largest (562,000) in the world though it be, is untried, inexperienced and if forced to fight Japan at the end of the Trans-Siberian 5,600 miles from Moscow will be at an appalling disadvantage. But as Commissar for Air he is believed to feel that the Red Air Force (2,000 planes) is Russia's joker, her super-trump card against Japan...
...Party. Stalin's Front Man, gay and juicy old President Mikhail Kalinin, whom Ambassador Bullitt called "charming." Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinoff whose bright-eyed children Tanya and Mischa convinced nine-year-old Anne Bullitt that "Moscow is swell and the theatres are grand!" War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Vorishilov, who was picked and successfully popularized by Stalin to efface from Soviet minds the Red Army's oldtime War Lord and Stalin's rival Trotsky. With "Klim" at a dinner tendered Ambassador Bullitt by the Litvinoffs were the Commissars of Foreign Trade, Light Industry and Internal Supply. With Foreign...
Turks called them good-humoredly "Soviet Cinderellas." recalled that they were all dressed in dark, nondescript suits of no recognizable fashion when they landed at Istanbul with their eminent Soviet husbands, chubby War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, ferocious-whiskered Cavalry General Budenny and jovial Commissar of Education Bubnov...