Word: nikolais
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Russian faces were red, partly from embarrassment, partly from anger, partly from annoyance that they had so little to show for such a fuss. Moscow said that it had recalled the offending military attaché, Colonel Nikolai Zabotin, "in view of the inadmissibility of the activities" of members of his staff. The secrets he got were not very good ones, Moscow added in tactless vexation, because they could be found in published works, including the "well-known pamphlets of the American Smyth." Quipped one wit: "The Russians complain the diamonds are paste...
...Beria's four predecessors in the C.H.E.K.A., Ogpit, N.K.V.D.: Felix Dzerzhinsky (1917-26), relieved and died of heart attack 1926; Viacheslav Menshinsky (1926-34), died in office 1934! Genrikh Yagoda (1934-36), relieved in 1936, shot for treason 1938; Nikolai Yezhov (1936-38), relieved in 1938, disappeared from public view in 1939, believed dead or insane...
Americans like to dismiss Russians and their policies as enigmatic. Few Americans have investigated Russia's purposes and plans by reading the basic writings of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Nikolai Lenin and Joseph Stalin. But for at least a generation those purposes are likely to constitute the world's No. 1 political argument...
...plum-plump dictator approached his ninth anniversary as Chief of the Spanish State, the tree was shaken vigorously at a typically spectacular rally in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. There Russian anger and British impatience with the lingering Fascist regime were semi-officially proclaimed. Cried Nikolai Novikov, Soviet charge d'affaires in the U.S.: "The peoples of the Soviet Union hope that General Franco, this hireling of Hitler and Mussolini, will receive what is coming to him and his regime of Fascist dictatorship will be abolished...
...three founders (see cut) are alive and doing well. Pravda's first managing editor, Viacheslav Molotov, went to work under Nikolai Lenin's decree: the press was to be "propagandist, agitator and organizer." It still is, although Pravda has long since changed from agitating agin the Government to agitating for, Another Pravda founder, Joseph Stalin, sees to that. It is also intensely nationalist, devotes scant space to news from outside Russia. (It was a day late reporting the Jap surrender...