Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Lord Perth, the British Ambassador in Rome, was conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe...
...most significant controversy in which Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff has become involved in recent years arrived in the U. S. last week. The case has concerned M. Fedor Butenko, one of the New Bolsheviks who are being spectacularly advanced in the Soviet Union by Dictator Stalin to replace the liquidated Old Bolsheviks. Since Stalin's purge has been mowing down Soviet diplomats right & left, the Moscow diplomatic school has to work fast and overtime to keep filling up the constantly depleted ranks. Through this forcing house for New Bolshevik talent, Russia's Proletarian Writer...
Apparently Commissar Litvinoff, himself an Old Bolshevik, which today in Russia is risky and apt to leave one out of things, judged that New Bolshevik Butenko was a typical favorite of the Stalin entourage. Meanwhile, the Soviet Secret Political Police, who operate strictly on their own, were closing in upon Butenko at the very time when all Rumania was in ferment because of the 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...
...Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week he advanced like a woman in her sleep unerringly to the wallet in which Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes may be said metaphorically to keep his treaty with Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin...
...Prague the utmost consternation reigned in Cabinet circles. Dr. Benes, "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," was quite able to add up the Stalin blood purge, the Chamberlain tribulations, the Blum uncertainties and the collapse of Austria. Smart, quick, the President rushed into effect measures he hoped would insure peace between Czechoslovakia and Germany. The 3,200,000 Czechoslovaks who are radically German and whose principal leader is blatant Nazi Konrad Henlein-involved only a few months ago in a homosexual scandal -are to be given by a bill announced by the Cabinet last week the right to fill...