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...slim little lady from Omsk reached up and pulled a string. Her tug released a flag (hammer-&-sickle rampant on field gules) which covered part of a tank. Written boldly on the tank's bare flank was the word STALIN...
...workers standing all around cheered. The roundheaded official, also a native of Omsk, made a short speech: "These good machines will not rust in idleness. They will go into the battle line...
This incident did not take place in Russia. It happened at a tank factory in the British Midlands. The man and woman from Omsk were Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Ivan Maisky & wife. The workers were good beef-eating, royalty-loving British munitions laborers. Last week was Tanks-for-Russia Week, and the British were so eager to help the Russians that they acted like Russians themselves...
...humorous-aspect in the latest angle of World War II? I refer to the imminence of a "Bundles for Russia" campaign. Further, the probability of a song being composed about there always being a Russia and the recitation by Lynn Fontanne of the White Cliffs of Omsk. . . . Finally, we will have Brenda Frazier startling the Stork set with a most amusing pair of diamond ear clips done in the shape of a crossed hammer and sickle...
...that reinforcements are on their way to help him put down a Tartar rebellion led by Scarface Ogareff (Akim Tamiroff). Courier Michael Strogoff (Anton Walbrook) is spotted by Ogareff spies as he leaves St. Petersburg. Highlight of his journey is the day he spends at his home town of Omsk where he is taken prisoner and where his mother (Fay Bainter) and a girl (Elizabeth Allan), whom he has gallantly been escorting along the way, are present when Ogareff has his eyes roasted. The roasting produces no bad effects because Ogareff's mistress (Margot Grahame), who has fallen...