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...long-faced Alexey Ivanovich Rykov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics came a swift and sudden rebuke last week from Dictator Josef Vissarionovich ("Steel") Stalin...
Presiding and directly representing the Third International sat Comrade Rykov, said to be a relative of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Alexei Ivanovich Rykov. To him the assembled agents reported their activities and successes of the past twelvemonth, particularly with reference to the establishment of "Communist Cells" or nuclei in the principal armies and navies of the world...
When similar encouraging reports had been received concerning cells in the armies of Great Britain, France and Poland, Chairman Rykov enthusiastically predicted: "The last months of 1928 and the first months of 1929 will constitute a period of mutinies and seditions in the armies of Capitalist Powers...
After supplementary reports had been made, covering Italy, Turkey, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Belgium and Argentina, the agents listened to a high pressure, inspirational harangue by Chairman Rykov. He threatened a general curtailment of salaries, unless they produce in the near future "more impressive disturbances . . . such as the Vienna riots of last summer," when some 100 Austrians were killed and the Ministry of Justice was burned (TIME, July 27). Even this potent disturbance, stormed Comrade Rykov, had been partially bungled. Secondly the agents were ordered to work for a general liaison between Red Cells so that these...
...bedazzlement upon receiving, last week, mail addressed to him from Russia. In this he found an official communication from the Government at Moscow, which stated that he, Pope Pius XI, had been condemned to death. The letter arrived by registered mail and bore the signatures of Premier Alexei Ivanovitch Rykov, Party Secretary Stalin and other Communist bigwigs. It offered grounds for the condemnation in a reference to the Pope's financial contributions toward the support of the anti-Bolshevist movement...