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Summoned before that august Bolshevist body, the former potent War Minister accused M. Stalin and Nikolai Bucharin, editor of the Pravda (official Moscow newspaper), of placing the question of their survival above all principle. He called them usurpers, Bonapartist dictators, without authority from the masses...
Last week, as it must to all men, death came to Milan Ciganovitch, 40, last of all the assassins. He is said to have been the protege of the late premier Nikolai Pasuitch, who sent him to the U. S. for a year immediately after the murders. On his return to his native land he received a large grant of land at Uskub, where he lived in affluence until his death. His part in the assassination, for which he was named in the Austro-Hungarian ultimatum to Serbia, was restricted to supplying bombs from the royal arsenal in Belgrade...
...children were released from Ellis Island when it was proved, Admiral McCully being a bachelor of large independent income, that they were unlikely to become public charges. Now their ages vary from 10 to 19 years. The oldest, Nikolai Smnov, is enrolled in the Staunton Military Academy at Staunton...
Significance. The facts just cited make clear that an attempt to invade Soviet Russia might be set in motion at any time by the mere fiat of Grand Duke Nikolai. At 71 he still retains the majestic presence and shrewd acumen which enabled him to carry out the masterly Russian "retreat without victory" in 1915 to new lines so well chosen that they .held against Imperial Germany for two years more...
With this proportion in mind, observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...