Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe today, standers for Democracy have become a subway crush in which everyone gets on the other's feet. Great Democrat Adolf Hitler recently described Germany as ''the perfect Democracy." Great Democrat Joseph Stalin recently gave his Soviet Union what he called "The Most Democratic Constitution in the World," then riveted his dictatorship tighter by the shooting of 13 Old Bolsheviks (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante...
...stopped off at Milan for a head-to-head with Mussolini's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, Europe's youngest foreign minister. These two reached an accord ending much of the Italo-Turkish tension which has sprung from Kamal Atatürk's closeness to Stalin. Turkish fears that operations against her might take off from Italy's Dodecanese Islands, and Italian nervousness about Turkey's refortification of the Dardanelles. In substance the Ciano-Aras accord is a pact of mutual good intentions...
...afternoon, stoped to look at the fine exhibition of the books of Pushkin, Russia's greatest poet. It does my heart good to see that much-maligned country have something to show off to us all. It would seem that there is something Mr. Trotsky and Mr. Stalin can both agree is good. Into the Harry Elins room to see the first four folios of Shakespere laid out under glass like Harvard's very crown jewels. Which they really are, judging from what the white haired lady told me of their rareness and value...
...sentencing not to Death but to ten years' imprisonment Karl Radek and the onetime Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Comrade Grigoriy Sokolnikov, Stalin's Supreme Court spared two Big Reds with friends among journalists and statesmen of the World - although many attributed the sudden mercy twist of Moscow Justice to discreet, telegraphic intervention by the Premier of France...
...dock last week to Ogpu subterranean cellars, whence their execution was announced by the Government after 60 hours, were all ace-high Communists only in Russia, scarcely famed abroad. The execution this week of Grigoriy Piatakov, Vice-Commissar for Heavy Industry, after his super-sabotage confession, leaves Dictator Stalin's "Dear Friend Grigoriy" Ordzhonikidze Commisar for Heavy Industry, vindicated in the Soviet press for Heavy Industry's having fallen behind the Five-Year Plan. Other confessions and executions of the week vindicated virtually all Russia's thousands of recent wrecks and breakdowns...