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...addition to his work here, he studied at the universities of Gratz, Freiburg, Berlin, and Leningrad. He was married in 1918 and is survived by three daughters and his wife, from whom he had been separated for several years...
...Stepinac left the witness stand after his 38-minute address, Bishop Joseph P. Hurley of Saint Augustine, Fla., representing Pope Pius XII at the trial, bowed before him; Catholics all over the world, recalling that a Soviet death sentence against Leningrad Archbishop John Cieplak in 1923 had been commuted under pressure of world opinion, were rallying to Stepinac's side. Summoned to Rome to coordinate protests were pink-cheeked, rosy Msgr. Angelo Roncalli of Paris; Lancashire-born Archbishop William Godfrey, apostolic delegate to Britain; Dutch national hero Cardinal de Jong. Commented Pope Pius: ". . . We have the right...
Already Zhdanov's committee has singled out for reprimand a host of writers, editors, film directors and play producers who have veered away from the party line onto primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope...
...Under the auspices of the Soviet Red Cross and Red Crescent Society, Princess Ashraf called on Stalin (who muttered good wishes for Persia), laid a wreath on Lenin's mausoleum, attended a physical culture parade, attended a tea given by Soviet President Nikolai Shvernik's wife, viewed Leningrad's Museum of Defense, The Hermitage, the Pediatrics Institute. For her pains, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and the insigne of a Distinguished Worker of Sanitary Defense of the U.S.S.R...
...trusted man" with the International Brigade; 2) in Vienna, Prague and Paris as a member of the Communist International's roving undercover political bureau; 3) in Vienna as a university student (Tito still speaks German with Vienna's sloppy accent); 4) in Switzerland; 5) in Moscow and Leningrad taking courses in partisan warfare at revolutionary finishing schools; 6) in Moscow, as Comintern representative of the Yugoslav Communists...