Word: sovietizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bolsheviks now executed. Said she: "When they arrest someone in Russia, he's sure to be guilty, for in the Soviet Union they always investigate carefully beforehand." She heard a Czech Communist ask venerable Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, Soviet President, "Was the Red Army weakened by the execution of its leaders?" President Kalinin asked: "What do you think? Would it weaken any army to remove those who are confessedly guilty of weakening the faith of the army in itself? What do you think...
...soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless, while the actress and her Red put on skis, started down a steep slope in the direction of the Soviet frontier and disappeared in gathering...
...Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped to the Reds. Final confirmation came when Soviet officials at Alexandrovsk announced they had clapped Actress Okada and Producer Yoshida into a small jail near the frontier. In Tokyo detectives grilled stage colleagues of the pair, learned they had participated at the Soviet Embassy in amateur theatricals...
Birthday. Poet Carl Sandburg; his 60th; in Harbert, Mich. Said he: "I want to live to see what results from the wonderful contradiction in the Chinese scene where the Bank of England, the Standard Oil Co. and Soviet Russia all would like to defeat the Japanese...
...Earle's hand-picked chairman of Pennsylvania's cinema censorship board is Peggy Palmer, whose late husband A. Mitchell Palmer, as U. S. Attorney General, was the greatest Red-baiter of his day. In a hearing of an appeal against the board's banning of the Soviet-made Baltic Deputy, Mrs. Palmer last week showed her particolors. Her testimony: "The acting was the most magnificent I have seen since I've been on the board. ... I don't like Communism, so the picture is not the type I want to see shown in Pennsylvania...