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After spending 15 days in Rome waiting to be presented to the King of Italy and instead listening to the anti-Soviet demonstrations of Fascist youths, Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Gorelchin suddenly departed for home, leaving the impression that he is not likely to return to such a hostile capital very soon...
Surprised by the cleverness of Finland's preparations, Russia's press exploded in wrath. Wrote Nikolai Virta in Pravda (from Terijoki, where Russia has set up its joke People's Government): "When our tired men wanted to drink, they found all the village wells filled with earth. . . . Hardly had the first Red fighter set foot on Finnish soil when an explosion rent the air-a mine! Mines are everywhere." Even the Russian soldiers were indignant. Writer Virta quoted one as saying: "What cads! . . . They are masters of foul play. How well they make such nastiness...
...Turks were still hesitating at latest reports but Russians considered it significant that Foreign Minister Saracoglu did something in Moscow which no foreign statesman has ever done before: he laid a wreath on the blood-red marble tomb of Nikolai Lenin in the Red Square...
...Complete Sadness." In Edinburgh 500 members of the International Genetical Congress met to discuss chances of creating healthier, more intelligent human beings. Absent from the meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden...
Only once did the name Alex Gumberg ever appear in a newspaper headline. That was last week when at 51 he died suddenly in Norwalk, Conn., stricken with coronary thrombosis while entertaining at his country home. Yet in one short life he had been a trusted adviser to Nikolai Lenin and the confidant of a Morgan partner...