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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stalin's Secret Police were trying to kidnap or kill me. That was probably because the Bolsheviks suspected that I could no longer bear to see their treachery [to Russia] and had decided to break forever with Bolshevism. In [Tsarist] Russia Joseph Stalin says with his pretense of infallibility, there prevailed 'the darkest terror of a police dictatorship.' . . . In reality never has the [Russian] working class suffered such privations as have been inflicted upon it in the period of so-called Socialization. ... I have been able to speak with many workers who still remember and liked work...
...Albert Einstein of today is no longer the timid bewildered man who visited the U. S. in 1930. He has acquired considerable poise in public, is not so afraid of the world as he used to be, entertains frequently. He has learned that it is not necessary to associate with anyone whom he does not like and trust. His telephone number is not listed and the telephone company will not furnish it. He leads the kind of life he likes and the U. S. suits him very well...
Teutons naturally dislike Latins, more specifically Italians dislike Germans, and last week Der Führer and II Duce worked like stevedores to keep their peoples sold on the Rome-Berlin Axis. The press of the world had done everything possible to suggest that Italy and Germany can no longer be friends, now that Germany has engulfed Austria and thus brought German soldiers down to the Brenner Pass frontier of Italy, immediately below which live 613,000 Italian subjects, many of whom were Austrian Tyroleans before the War and are as fiercely German as A. Hitler himself...
...British capitalists from whom France must try to keep on borrowing at the rate of over 30,000,000,000 francs per year, to keep her armament program going. On the other hand, a point in the Cabinet's favor is that pathetic, inexperienced Yvon Delbos is no longer Foreign Minister, has been replaced by veteran Joseph Paul-Boncour, everlasting French delegate to the League of Nations. Like his great friend Lord Perth, who as Sir Eric Drummond was League Secretary General for 14 years, M. Paul-Boncour has been a believer in making a Four-Power Pact between...
...used in medical schools would provide a good source of fresh corneas except that California's curator of corpses, Dr. Guy Stillman Millberry (longtime dean of the University of California College of Dentistry), disposes of no unclaimed body for at least a day-when its corneas are no longer fit for transplanting...