Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tiflis, few miles from the birthplace of Stalin, in the Georgian Socialist Soviet Republic, at least 20 more "spies and wreckers" were "completely destroyed" last week for aiming "at the establishment of an independent republic under the protection of a certain capitalistic power." Among those shot was Budu Mdivani, once reported to be a brother of the Marrying Mdivanis (score: Pola Negri, Mary McCormic, Louise Astor van Alen, Barbara Hutton) but disowned as such by curly-haired Prince David Mdivani (Mae Murray). During last January's treason trial Budu Mdivani's name was mentioned in connection with...
...spies in Russia employed by foreign governments would please come forward and confess, it would help things enormously. This simple suggestion was earnestly put forth last week by Pravda ("Truth"), official newspaper of Dictator Joseph Stalin...
Thoroughly tired of his company's continuing to be to the Bolivian Government what the Jews are to Hitler and the Trotskyites are to Stalin, an unnamed Standard Oil official at New York last week exploded: "Preposterous, utter, sheer nonsense! We would not raise a finger or lift a telephone receiver to stir up trouble in Bolivia." Meantime, with the Bolivian press crackling away at the yanqis, President Toro quietly transferred Standard Oil's confiscated refineries to the Government-owned Yacimientos Petroleros Fiscales, prepared to give them a new whirl...
Early in his essay, Editor Armstrong makes it clear that his warning is against all autarchs. Red Stalin as well as Brown Hitler or Black Mussolini. And his rallying cry is to all democracies, to consolidate their national thinking and their honor against the spread of autarchy. He does not call for war: "The liberal states could fight, might win. But could their liberalism survive the wartime curbs that would be prerequisite to victory and the new waves of economic deterioration and social disorder that afterwards would overtake the victor along with the vanquished? Hardly. . . . The call...
...SOVIETS-Albert Rhys Williams- Harcourt, Brace ($3). To 88 most mauled questions on Soviet Russia, this 554-page volume supplies "constructive" ready answers, condensed biographies of Lenin and Stalin, an impartial reading list of 450 books in English...