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Climaxing fifteen months of long-distance pow-wows, Harvard's Widener Library has recently succeeded in securing possession of all the personal archives of the late Leon Trotsky. The famous Russian revolutionary was assassinated a few weeks ago in Mexico by a reputed emissary of Stalin's OGPU...
...keeps a species of impotent nationality in its Government General. But the Russians do things differently. Last week, as Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia officially became Russian Republics Nos. 15, 16, 17, liquidation of their nationalism began. Hundreds of men were arrested, including all leaders of former regimes that the Ogpu could lay hands on. Tribunals were set up to try and punish "traitors to the people." Traitors to the people included not only active opponents of sovietization but all those who have fallen short of their political and economic duties, including the political duty of voting their countries into...
Prizeman. Among the recipients of prizes and other honors awarded by the Academy was none other than forthright FBI Chief John Edgar Hoover, nemesis of kidnappers, hero of gangbusters, night club celebrity, target of Ogpu-frightened critics. Mr. Hoover got the Academy's Public Welfare Medal, for applying scientific methods to crime detection. Said he handsomely: "I accept this medal not for myself alone but also as a tribute to my associates...
...nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they were all the same. Comrade Stalin recognized their function when, one day, he viewed that part of the walls of the Kremlin from which Tsar Ivan IV watched his enemies executed, was reported as saying: "Ivan the Terrible was right. You cannot rule Russia...
...blistering telegram sent by New York Regional Director Elinore Herrick to Chairman Madden: "I protest the method of investigation which has been pursued in the New York regional office . . . behind locked doors, in secrecy and in a thoroughly objectionable manner . . . the procedure one might expect from the OGPU...