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...voting districts, of which 40,000 have no telegraphic or even rail connection with Moscow, went ahead with feverish activity. It was belatedly announced that 94,138,000 Russians registered to vote and that at least 96.5% had voted. All votes counted for the Stalin regime, since only Stalinist candidates ran, and Soviet officials boasted that not a single ballot had come to light which seemed to have been scratched. On the contrary, millions of ballot envelopes when opened were found to contain not only the voter's name signed or printed but also such expressions as "I would...
...much as a square mile changed hands in Spain's civil war last week but vigorously boiled a question now vexing socialists in many lands: whether those Communist forces which have made the Soviet Union what it is today-the Stalinist forces - now largely dominate Leftist Spain or not. Last month worried Manhattan socialists sent Associate Editor Sam Baron of the Socialist Call to investigate conditions in Barcelona and Valencia where were occurring the trials of several prominent Spanish labor leaders for fomenting "Trotskyist riots." Mr. Baron, onetime New York president of the Bookkeepers, Stenographers & Accountants Union, has been...
...proof were still lacking that the bloody Soviet purge of the past year was a brutally direct, Oriental method of ridding the modern Stalinist Russia of the oldtime, inefficient professional revolutionists who brought it into being, such proof seemed to become apparent last week in the shuffled appointments of three Soviet career women. Removed without warning from the post of Commissar for Finance was Varvara Nikolaevna Yakovleva, to be succeeded by a little-known man, Nikolai Sokolov...
That Sun Stalin shines in Switzerland too, appeared this week in dispatches from Zurich. There Swiss police arrested National Councilman Marino Bodenmann, a member of the pro-Stalinist Swiss Communist Party, and evidence seized led to arrests of many other Communists in Basel and Geneva as well. Documents seized show, according to the police, that Stalinists in Switzerland have succeeded in recruiting and shipping to Spain 1,200 volunteers for the Spanish Leftists in violation of neutral Switzerland...
Although now convinced that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...