Word: russianized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Japanese accounts the Red Army never charged with the bayonet. After a heavy barrage the Russian infantry advanced supported by tanks, threw hand grenades from a distance of a few yards, then fled. At any rate, by armistice hour Soviet attacks had not dislodged the Japanese from Changkufeng, although the hill was deeply pitted with craters made by Russian shells...
...reach a truce, the Soviet Commissar and the Japanese Ambassador each made concessions. Mr. Shigemitsu gave up his original contention that the commission chosen to arbitrate the boundary should in fairness consist of one Japanese and one Manchukuoan for each Russian. He agreed to two Russians and two Japanese Manchukuoans. Mr. Litvinoff gave up his insistence that the agreement must specifically state that the boundary should be defined according to "maps bearing the signatures of official representatives of Russia & China." That point was left open. He further gave up his demand that the Japanese retire from the disputed territory before...
...Russian figures . . Japanese figures Russian dead . . 236 . . 1,000 Russian wounded . . 611 . . 2,000 Japanese dead . . 600 . . 300 Japanese wounded...
This brings up for revision the most distinctively Communist contribution to Russian finance. It is a Communist contention that the crushing burden of taxes borne by workers under a capitalist state is largely lifted in the Soviet State by turnover taxes. As a capitalist buys materials and adds a profit on to his costs before selling them, the State adds a turnover tax. Thus in Russia the State sells its own wood to its own sawmills, sells its lumber to its furniture factories, sells its furniture to the public-and collects a tax on each of these turnovers...
Died. Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky (real name: Alexeyev), 75, great Russian stage director; of heart disease; in Moscow. Co-founder of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 and its director ever since, he revolted against classical conventions, emphasized realism, truth, emotional sincerity, charged his actors to "live the part every moment." He was equally proficient as actor, author (An Actor Prepares, My Life and Art), teacher and philosopher. Once he summed up: "My work with the artist is to open his eyes to . . . those things that must be developed out of his own soul." Died. Edmund Charles Tarbell, 76, portrait painter...