Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blanket decree signed by Dictator Joseph Stalin last week ordered corrected some abuses typical in Soviet collective farming which have been fully described by Soviet officials who have fled Russia, have never been mentioned by dispatches from Moscow. Promptly the New York Times, which has been growing more & more aroused at the difficulty of getting straight news out of the Soviet Union, editorialized last week: "Once more the outside world learns what has been happening in Russia only when a Government decree stops or reverses a Government policy. The present edict forbidding further expulsions of farmers from collective farms...
...admits further that the measures taken have broken up many collective farms and condemned the members to starvation. The purge of the peasants must end. Stalin orders, and by his order illuminates the lot of the poor muzhik under a gigantic trial-&-error system that, from his point of view, supported by periodic turnarounds in the Kremlin, seems to be mostly error...
...acres up to last week whereas the State had ordered them to sow by then 48,705,881 acres. Thus far, according to Izvestia, 17% of the total sowing scheduled for this spring has been done. Thus, despite all censorship, the main fact came out that Dictator Stalin, having suddenly realized how much trouble is up, has leaped in with concessions which he hopes will persuade the peasantry to start sowing seed full blast this spring, before it is too late...
...only Trotsky, but also Mexico's President Lázaro Cárdenas is convinced that Stalin's secret agents are bent on the Great Exile's assassination. Cárdenas' contribution to the Trotskyist cause is a guard of policemen who day & night patrol with fixed bayonets around Trotsky's home in the Coyoacán suburb of Mexico's capital. The house, placed at Trotsky's disposal by the wife of Mexico's Trotskyist painter, Diego Rivera, is elaborately wired to sound warnings of intruders. At night it stands...
Paradoxically, two of the most uncompromisingly anti-Communist members of the new French Cabinet, Paul Reynaud and Georges Mandel, were for immediate resumption of those cordial French relations with Joseph Stalin personally which were never so close as when the Premier of France was Conservative Pierre Laval, one of the few foreign statesmen ever entertained by the Kremlin Dictator. With a view to aiding France to gain strength as fast as possible in rivalry with Italy and Germany, the assistance of the World's No. 1 Communist is again wanted by Paris...