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Victory at Moscow. As the Government moved back from Samara (Kuibyshev), the Russians told the world their story of the Battle of Moscow...
Later Ambassador Litvinoff cooled somewhat and flew off in the Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable, and that the Russian Embassy at Teheran had been informed that the transport plane was full. One London rumor, conflicting with the Teheran dispatches, claimed that the plane was already in the air when the Ambassador arrived at the airport...
Compliments and thanks for "Fever Chart" and "Appointment in Samara" in TIME, Oct. 27. They are the tops. Written as though from a mountaintop where we get in one view significance of the past, pathos and confusion of the present, doom in the future unless we wake up with a bang...
...welding these two masses -the untrained ore and partly trained ingots-into a more or less efficient machine was entrusted three weeks ago to a good general, Klimenti Voroshilov, and a not-so-good one, Semion Budenny. Last week Marshal Voroshilov reached Russia's auxiliary capital at Samara to organize his great new Army. And as he traveled east to the rear, he passed trainload after planeload of special winter troops, trained since the Finnish war in cold-weather war fare. There were said to be 750,000 of them, of which some 200,000 were reported to have...
...these foreign visitors must have felt urgency in the city's memories. They must have heard echoes of the piteous, patient cry Walter Duranty heard so often in the Samara of two decades...