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...Goga Cabinet collapse (TIME, Feb. 21). When the Soviet Chargé d'Affaires suddenly "disappeared" one night in Bucharest, the local Soviet Tass news agency man concluded that Rumanian Fascists had kidnapped or murdered New Bolshevik Butenko. In Moscow this news electrified Old Bolshevik Litvinoff. Showing his Stalinist zeal, he ordered rushed off three hot notes in succession to the Rumanian Government, demanded that they rescue Butenko from Fascist toils, finally ordered the Soviet Minister to Czechoslovakia to rush to Rumania and personally enforce the Soviet Union's demands...
Party, whose secretary general is J. Stalin, to cancel last week a proclamation which announced in mid-December that January 1938 had been designated "The Stalinist Month of Stakhanovite Records." Instead, Stalin ordered a complete revision of the whole Stakhanovite system during January and February, set March as the probable month in which a new system of speedups will be tried...
...Instantly the solemnity is broken. Everybody in the room jumps up and applauds joyously and stormily for the first ballot of the first general secret election under the Stalinist Constitution-a ballot with the name of the Constitution's creator...
...Deputies elected to Russia's new parliament, the Supreme Soviet, official figures listed 855 as enrolled members of the Communist Party, 184 as women. All 1,143 are Stalinist Deputies, but the fact that 288 are not enrolled Communists was heavily emphasized by the official Russian press last week, hailed as "The Victory of the Bloc of Party and Non-Party Bolsheviki...
Several days afterward, when the world press had ceased front-paging the Soviet election, Moscow officials unobtrusively announced that 1,334,124 votes were "scratched"- that is, the name of the Stalinist candidate was struck out by voters. The further official admission was made that "more than 2,000,000 votes were also invalidated in other ways...