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...very simplicity of style is what gives this story its force. The tale itself consists of not unfamiliar elements: a life guided by a desperate need for food and an equally desperate desire to avoid the notice of the OGPU, then months in filthy prisons, finally escape through northern Russia into Finland. All this has been told before by other exiles, but here it is set forth with a stark simplicity that strikes home like a javelin...
Died. Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky, 60, head of OGPU, Russia's Secret Service; after long illness, in Moscow. Died, Blaise Diagne, 61, Senegalese Negro member of the French Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Paris. Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab...
Real reason for the release of Dimitroff, Taneff and Popoff was dug out by New York Times Correspondent Walter Duranty.* Last month OGPU arrested seven members of the Controll Co. for military espionage. Four of them were Germans and it seemed that the Soviet had definite evidence against them over a long period. Chancellor Hitler was glad to buy his Germans back with whatever he had that the Russians wanted...
...special rates on extra food, phonographs, records, banjos and guitars. Then they asked the Scrap Iron Trust for 10,000 rubles for the expedition. The Trust passed them on to Constantine Maltsev, Assistant Commissar for Education. He, for one, did not bite, did not laugh. Instead he called the OGPU. One editor, arrested on a charge of trying to obtain money under false pretenses, was quickly released. But when the Crocodile set about telling the story of its hoax, the Soviet high command firmly shushed...
Perhaps because of his personal popularity with the Soviet masses, Klim is often called "Stalin's only rival." Stories constantly circulate that Klim and other Red Army officers strongly resent the privileged position of Stalin's praetorian guard, the OGPU "Special Troops." It has even been stated that the Red Army's rifles are taken away from it every night and locked up in each barracks by the OGPU-doubtless an exaggeration, but not without significance...