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Karl Berngardovich Radek, the greatest journalist in Soviet Russia, repeatedly in recent years the spokesman of Joseph Stalin, and in recent months so potent that Moscow correspondents were calling him "the Second Foreign Commissar," was admitted by the Soviet Commissariat of Justice last week to be in jail awaiting trial for his life. Famed Journalist Radek (né Sobelsohn) suddenly "disappeared'" last month and neither his paper Izvestia ("News"), the official daily of the Soviet Government, nor any other Moscow organ printed a line as to the whereabouts of Communism's most popular commentator. According to such...
Bolshevik males who happen to dislike Journalist Radek and the small fringe of whiskers around his round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
...usual, Journalist Radek was one smart jump ahead of his enemies. Just before he "disappeared" he managed to get printed in Izvestia, above his signature, a scorching editorial in which he flayed Trotsky and demanded Death for all "decaying-souled traitors." In this editorial Comrade Radek claimed that he personally sabotaged and foiled the Trotsky plots against Stalin, and this bold claim was expected last week to constitute Prisoner Radek's chief defense in court. It was typical of Soviet justice that, even after Radek's arrest had been admitted, Russian newspapers carried no details of the charges...
Salvation, the General indicated, meant also saving China from Soviet Russia. At this, able Soviet Journalist Karl Radek editorialized in Iventis, "Japanese make a mistake if they let their giddiness over successes against China lead them to think Russia would be an equally easy victim." To a Japanese rumor that Russia was on the verge of annexing vast Sinkiang Province in Western China as a Soviet republic, the Soviet news agency Tass spluttered, "Shameful, provocative lies, apparently manufactured by those circles which specialize in forming so-called 'independent governments' in Chinese provinces...
...Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came dressed in proletarian sack suits. Tossing off the Ambassador's champagne, they sported all night with the excuse of waiting for his cocks to crow at dawn...