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Joseph Stalin went personally to Leningrad, supervised the grilling of Kirov's assassin, who was soon dead without a public trial, and ever since then the Dictator has been almost daily grilling and shooting prominent Russians, especially Communists (TIME, Oct. 18 et ante...
That "the letter of Law is not always the Spirit of Justice" is the conclusion of "The Village Maiden and the Three Red Boys" where the offended father's attempt to profit in a common-sense way from his daughter's misfortune is rudely rejected by Soviet justice. "Leningrad's Lucky House" shows an all-wise government taking control of a poor tenement's winning in a state lottery and administering it to everyone's disappointment and everyone's ultimate benefit. Mr. Duranty has loss success when he tackles the subject of the comparative success of Christianity and Communism...
...parliamentary seats to be filled on December 12 by the first election under Russia's new Constitution (TIME, Nov. 8) disclosed last week that in nearly every case only one candidate had been nominated for each seat. According to Soviet President Mikhail Kalinin in a speech at Leningrad last week, the average Russian is asking himself: "What is the use of my going to vote? There is only one candidate, and he will be elected anyway...
...nine of the ten, Moscow correspondents could find out absolutely nothing, not even where they live or what may be their jobs. The only hero definitely spotted was Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky, and everyone in Russia knows that little more than two years ago the Secret Police of Leningrad were put in his charge after the assassination of Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Sergei" Kirov (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934 et seq.). In Moscow this week most people were willing to bet that the other nine heroes have also distinguished themselves by deeds the nature of which will be kept quiet...
...This week the three other planes are scheduled to take the four scientists and a load of supplies to the base, bring Dr. Schmidt and his companions back. The four who will remain are Ivan Papanin, the leader, a former military commissar and leader of the fleet mutiny at Leningrad during the War, lately manager of the polar station at Franz Josef Land; Ernest Krenkel, who was radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic...