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...this long parade of error, the work of Vladimir Poliakoff deserves a special float. For 20 years, from his six-storied London house, he has been sending out, under the name of Augur, a series of inside stories, interpretations, explanations, which have made him one of the most highly respected European commentators on foreign affairs. Last month he spoke his mind on Poland. Augur's Polish story...
Argus was a mythological monster who never missed a trick, for some of his 100 eyes were always ajar. Considering that such a creature might well have been the pure prototype of the modern international journalist, Vladimir Poliakoff took "Argus" as a pen name in 1924, when he wrote an article for the British Fortnightly Review. By a mistake the printer made it "Augur." The accidental pseudonym served just as well for Journalist Poliakoff's political forecasts, and Augur it has remained. In 14 years that by-line has come to mean as much as 22K inside a ring...
These and a string of greater & lesser scoops stretching back a generation have come to Vladimir Poliakoff because he is a brilliant, self-assured, courteous Russian-Jewish gentleman who has ingratiated himself with the most impeccable diplomatic connections in Europe. His recipe: "Know your man ten years before you need him; give more than you take." In London he has profited recently by being thick with the Italian Embassy, perhaps partly because he strikingly resembles a jesting Mussolini. But he is suing the London Daily Worker for criminal libel because it said he was a liaison man in the British...
Journalist Poliakoff circles over Europe like a hawk. He slaps no backs but never forgets a name or a face. At home in his six-storied London house he claims London's biggest private telephone bill. His work day begins at 5:30. Stopping only for snacks, Augur swiftly turns out his well-turned, exclusive, thrice-a-week Diplomatic Letters, restricted to 72 copies, over which every embassy in London pores. Poliakoff is equally proud of his weekly piece for the provinces, his occasional cabled stories to the New York Times. Somewhere he finds time to write books...
...orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle the Fourth International, yet last week such a reputable correspondent as "Augur" (Vladimir Poliakoff) of the New York Times was able to write of the ''Free International" as he prefers to call...