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Soviet celebrations now feature super-life-size poster pictures of Comrade Kaganovich almost as big and almost as numerous as those of Comrade Stalin. On the Politbureau of the Communist Party which rules Russia, Stalin is No. 1, Kaganovich No. 2. When the Five-Year Plan was wallowing among blunders Comrade Kaganovich coined an immortal, all-explanatory slogan, "Why wail over broken eggs when we are making an omelet!" Last week this potent Bolshevik let fly at the regime of a state with which Russia is on diplomatic and officially friendly terms, the Third Reich of Jew-baiting Adolf Hitler...
Until Russia's potent "Klim" arrived in Turkey last week no member of the Politbureau or Steering Committee of Moscow's ruling Communist Party had ever ventured outside the Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried...
...appeared that Comrade Bukharin had dared to say that some of Dictator Stalin's policies are too radical much as Comrade Trotsky dared to say they were not radical enough and reaped exile for his pains. Last week Bukharin was not exiled, but he was expelled from the Politbureau or inner council of the Party...
...heresy: Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, the puppet Prime Minister of the Soviet Union; and Mikhail Pavlovich Tomsky, onetime Chairman of the All-Union General Council of Trade Unions. Contrite to the point of tears, Comrades Rykov and Tomsky confessed that they had been "mistaken," were allowed to remain in the Politbureau...
Peking. Amid this Shanghai war on "Reds," able New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty arrived from Moscow at Peking and cabled, "This correspondent happens to know that the Communist Party's politbureau has been advocating far less Communism in China than its enemies care to admit." He continued that the Soviet Government is convinced of the impracticability of communizing China, at present, but is anxious to foster the development of Chinese Nationalism, a force directed against the Occident...