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...sort of genial grandpa to the whole Soviet Union is stern Josef Stalin's front man, twinkly-eyed, scrubby-bearded Michail Ivanovich Kalinin, whose wife, many Russians think, resembles Mrs. Roosevelt...
President Roosevelt calls Grandpa Kalinin officially "President"' as do heads of other foreign states, but Russians call him to his face familiarly and affectionately "Michail Son-of-Ivan." One day last week U. S. correspondents in Moscow were ushered in to the first interview ever given by the Grandpa President. They found him in a blue serge suit, old brown sweater and clean white shirt perched on the desk of Commissioner of Communications Alexei Rykov. "Well, well," chuckled Grandpa Kalinin accepting and lighting a U. S. cigaret, "I have never been so close to so many American newspapermen before...
...Michail Ivanovich," prompted Commissar Rykov, "tell us about...
...Michail Ivanovich," jogged Commissar Rykov, "about the Second Five-Year Plan...
...majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead President Roosevelt addressed scrubby-bearded, gold-spectacled Michail Ivanovich Kalinin (K in the cut above) who has as little power as the President of France and is in effect "President of Russia," though his proper Soviet title is President of the Standing Committee of the Union Central Executive Committee of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...