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General leronim Petrovich Uborevich, removed two days earlier as Red Army commander in the district of White Russia...
General Robert Petrovich Eideman, recently removed as head of training of army reservists in aviation and chemical warfare...
...happy about Mr. Krock. Old Bolsheviks- Dictator Stalin is no longer quite happy about the following most eminent Soviet Comrades, in addition to Comrade Radek, who sat jammed in the Moscow dock before the fascinated eyes of new U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies (see p. 17): 1) Leonid Petrovich Serebriakov, who from 1919 to 1921 held Stalin's present post, Secretary General of the Communist Party, and in 1929 was president in Manhattan of the Soviet trade monopoly Amtorg Trading Corp.; 2) Grigoriy Piatakov, until recently Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry under one of Stalin's greatest...
Died. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, 86, world-renowned Russian physiologist who won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 and went on to lay the cornerstones for modern behavioristic psychology; of influenza; in Moscow. Since his efforts to weld mind & body into one delighted Russian Communists, they babied him, dutifully reported his characterization of them as "half-illiterate, rough handlers of science," gave him a beautiful laboratory, a $10,000 annuity, paraded him as often as possible to convince the world of their devotion to Science...
...Russia does not coddle very many of its people, for example its railway workers of whom it has plenty, but it does coddle its topflight scientists, with whom it is not overburdened. Sedulously coddled is the only living Russian Nobel Prizewinner in the sciences, grouchy, bearded old Dr. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, who can bark with impunity that he does not like a government of "illiterate Communists." Lately another example of Russian scientist-coddling has seemed to certain Britons like the embrace of a selfish bear. But the British can take their science more calmly than the Russians, as they proved...