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...Government made no effort to hide the fact that he was sick, but the 67-year-old dictator, despite his hoarse profanity, his swaggering and sabre rattling, had been in poor health for years. He was a martyr to severe attacks of asthma ever since his exile in Siberia 48 years ago. Thus several days ago when a famed cancer specialist arrived from Vienna, few Poles were smart enough to guess the reason, and three weeks ago when Poland adopted a new Constitution putting in legal form the system under which the country has run for years, and giving Puppet...
...Josef Pilsudski, Socialist, was an exile in Siberia, charged with complicity in a plot to assassinate Alexander III. One of the leaders of the plot was the elder brother of Nikolai Lenin, who was hanged. Exile Pilsudski was well treated by his Russian guards, even allowed to go hunting with a double-barreled shotgun...
...Every second-hand store in Leningrad is crammed to bursting with household effects of Russians who mournfully admit they must sell at any price "because our family is being exiled to Siberia...
Since Kirov was assassinated not by an elderly Tsarist but by a youthful Communist, the expiation of his death by exile to Siberia of the sort of Russians who were being bundled off last week has been found, on a short term basis, peculiarly effective. Thus restive young Communists, many of them more or less disgusted with the Stalin Dictatorship, are not themselves "liquidated" but are terrorized by the liquidating of Tsarists, and relapse into useful Party obedience...
Died. A beggar whom police identified as the brother of the late Grigoriy Efimovich ("Mad Monk") Rasputin; of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile; in Tomsk, Siberia...