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Last week Dictator Stalin, speaking through Pravda, strove to warn both peasants and industrials that they imperatively must increase sowing and production if economic Russia is not to perish in a dwindling vicious circle. By way of striking a note of cheer, Pravda observed that the peasants are not hoarding as obstinately as in the years of extreme crisis, 1920 and 1921. The additional fact that grain collections have considerably speeded up since the first of this year prompted Pravda to detect "a marked change for the better in the relations of the important mass of the peasantry toward Soviet...
...name; her husband is Alfred Stiegiitz who was the first connoisseur to see her paintings ..and the first to discover the merit in them. Georgia O'Keeffe had been brought up in Wisconsin and Virginia, had studied in Manhattan under William Chase, who, as she calmly observes, would immediately perish of bewilderment should he, by an accident, walk .into the room where her paintings are on view. She was teaching drawing to young people in Texas, when she sent two of her charcoal drawings to a girl in New York. The girl took them to Stiegiitz, whose gallery was then...
...Germans. . . . I ... shall speak in the name of the United States and be assured I shall find means to prevent all massacre and pillage. ... I do not doubt that you will be victorious. Paris, as a centre of art and culture belongs to all the world. . . . France cannot perish...
...page 386 a succinct paragraph sweetly declares that to present the next forty years in which Talleyrand was Minister of Foreign Affairs under the Consulate; during the Empire; at Vienna; and under Louis XVIII;- "Would entail the survey of the history of France and Europe during the period", Perish the thought! And let us by all means make haste and be off in the remaining 125 pages to a consideration of the exciting details of Talleyrand's liason and marriage with Madame Grande, the very beautiful, albeit mildly illiterate, daughter of a French official at Tranquebar in India...
...opposition to communism and the principle of class struggle. A very whole some negative plank is that which aims to kill the provincial quarrels and national divisions. The new patriotism aims to abolish civil war, banditry, military chiefs and war lords, in order to preserve the people before they perish...