Word: leningrader
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...jail, but why they would not tell, and his jailing was not officially confirmed. In vain the German Embassy demanded that Herr Streck be produced, and the U. S. Embassy was able to hold its wedding only when another Soviet-German pastor, Herr Michel, whose Lutheran church is in Leningrad, rushed 500 miles to Moscow where genial U. S. Charge d'Affaires Loy W. Henderson gave the bride away. Intention to found a U. S. church in the Red Capital was definitely abandoned last year after Dr. Walter William Van Kirk of the American Section of the Universal Christian...
...fellow Communist assassinated in Leningrad that city's Party boss, Dictator Stalin's ''Dear Friend" Sergei Kirov. Stalin is supposed to have grilled the assassin personally...
...French Communist Party, and Out of the Night: A Biologist's View of the Future, by Texas University's famed Professor Hermann Joseph Muller. Five-feet-two with eyes of blue, wee Professor Muller has been experimenting in genetics at the Soviet Academy of Science in Leningrad. Some monstrous fruit flies which he grew under x-rays made the first news Texas had from him in three years. Professor Muller's book will probably find small favor in Austin. It discusses the possibility of breeding humans in the laboratory...
...SOVIET WORKER - Andrew Smith- Dutton ($3). A U. S. Communist, employed for five years in an electrical equipment factory at Leningrad, tells of his disillusionment with the Stalin regime. Completely one-sided, the book relates incident after incident to show that Russian workers are not paid enough to live on, that Russian industries are shame fully disorganized and inefficient...
...General Chiang to get his start; that perhaps without them he would never have conquered all China, become a Generalissimo, turned against Communism, put aside his non-Christian first wife, married a delightful Chinese graduate of Wellesley who writes stories & poems for Asia, and himself turned devout Methodist. In Leningrad last week up spoke the Generalissimo's son by his cast-off non-Christian wife, Mr. Chiang Chin-ko, a Chinese now studying hard how to make Revolution. "Mother, I am ashamed before the Chinese people of such a father!" He declared in an open letter in Leningrad...