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Like the NKVD, U.S. readers would do well to ponder this political autobiography. It is important as history, supplying much material the world never knew or has already forgotten about Russia's internal and external affairs from 1936 to 1939. (Barmine points out that the Purge, and Soviet charges...
Thus the harness maker's son from Iowa, who had risen to a position more powerful than many kings's, bowed out. His friends said he would write his memoirs, if his health permitted. He would have much to tell about: the Hundred Days of the New Deal...
¶Projected a careful purge of the schools and "the introduction of a genuine, democratic, freedom-loving, progressive spirit."
Last week in Moscow's Dom Soyuzov (House of Unions), the Soviet Government put 15 Polish politicians and under ground fighters on trial (the 16th of the famed "16 Poles" was ill). The ensuing stream of confessions, self -denunciations and one heroic defense made the non-Communist world remember...
Men of the Left. In Premier Parri's Cabinet were three Actionists, three Socialists, three Communists, three Liberals, three Labor Democrats, four Christian Democrats, one Independent. The Premier was also Minister of the Interior (in charge of the police). Vice Premier Pietro Nenni, Socialist leader, was Minister for the...