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...long list of generals who had distinguished themselves this winter and the name of Timoshenko did not appear among them. This unprecedented list personalized the Red Army with new names, new faces (see cuts) like those of the Don commander, Lieut. General K. Rokossovsky, and Lieut. General M. M. Popov, one of ten officers whose troops "particularly distinguished themselves...
...White Russian plotter is handsome old General Pavlo Skoropadsky, onetime Tsarist general, for six months Hetman (head man) of the short-lived Republic of the Ukraine, formed in early 1918 by the German Imperial Government. Another White Russian espionage centre is Prague, where White Russian Cossack General P. C. Popov operates. He has recently visited Belgrade, Budapest and Sofia, rounding up old "patriots" for service in the coming Ukrainian campaign. Significant it is that many White Russians of known anti-Communist leanings have found good "jobs" in "poor" Ruthenia...
Dispatches from Paris, with ballots arriving from Africa, Australia and such remote South American outposts as the battle-scarred Gran Chaco, reported Cossack Count Michael Grabbe leading in the world election for Ataman. Trailing was the only U. S. candidate, General Peter Kharitonovitch Popov, now chef in a Boston restaurant. Said Manhattan Ataman Abramov: "Even when we drive taxicabs instead of riding wild horses like our great hero of long ago, Taras Bulba, we don't change-We are still Cossacks...