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Died, Valerian Vladimirovich Kuybyshev, 47, vice Premier of the U. S.S.R., vice President of the All-Union Council of People's Commissars, member of the Communist Party Politburo; of arteriosclerosis; in Moscow. A pioneer young Bolshevik, he chairmanned the Gosplan (State Planning .Commission), launched two Five-Year Plans...
...capitalist methods, was hailed by editors as a step in the breakdown of Communism. Steel Man Stalin had his propagandists out in force last week to deny this imputation. In London, chief Stalin interpreter was none other than Nicolai Ivanovich Bukharin. Two years ago Bukharin, a member of the Politburo, horse-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, and Michael Tomsky called down the Steel Man's wrath as members of the "right heretics" who refused to cooperate whole heartedly in the Five-Year Plan. Last week found a chastened, subdued Nicolai Bukharin in London stroking a red beard, humbly explaining...