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Something Blue. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded by another aristocrat, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky. Before the revolution Menzhinsky wrote a prophecy: "If Lenin ever reaches power in fact, and not in imagination, he will make a mess of it, the like of one made by Czar Paul I. ... Leninists are a clan of political gypsies, with a strong voice and a love for wielding the knout, imagining that it is their inherent right to serve as coachmen for the laboring masses...
Died. Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky, 60, head of OGPU, Russia's Secret Service; after long illness, in Moscow. Died, Blaise Diagne, 61, Senegalese Negro member of the French Chamber of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Paris. Often erroneously referred to as the first Negro in a French Cabinet,* M. Diagne served as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1931, helped mobilize Colonial troops during the War. Died. William Ellis Corey, 68, oldtime protege of Andrew Carnegie, onetime president of U. S. Steel; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. His career closely followed that of Charles Michael Schwab...
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