Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have sent to Spain actually remain instructors, do as little fighting as possible. But while German volunteers are generally 18 to 20 years old, completing their own army training under actual battle conditions, Russian "volunteers" are fortyish, of the generation of Old Bolsheviks now being liquidated by Steel Man Stalin. Recently Russia has sent no more Soviet aviators, but gladly trains Spanish Leftist cadets on Russian soil...
Meanwhile, as Latvia's looming Munters left Geneva for Riga jauntily wearing credit for having stepped ably into the empty Dutch breeches, Europeans were intrigued by details of the little-known visit last spring of Mr. & Mrs. Munters to Dictator Joseph Stalin (TIME, June 28). In his boyhood Latvia's still young Foreign Minister studied at the Vladimir Military Academy in Petrograd to become an officer in Tsar Nicholas' Imperial Army, was turned out of school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin...
Statesman Munters, conversing easily in Russian with Statesman Stalin, noted the Dictator's expansive natural charm, coupled with earthy peasant shrewdness and no trace of being a Communist intellectual. Mr. Munters, knowing how many abstruse, voluminous Communist tracts have been printed with Joseph Stalin as the author, tried to draw him into intellectual discourse. Invariably J. Stalin's rough and ready ideas, questions and replies had to do with quick facts, not theory. His queries about Latvia, Statesman Munters was distressed to find, showed an all but complete lack of knowledge of the facts of Latvian history, since...
...Most important new project of Joseph Stalin, who already has the world's largest army (1,300,000 men who serve without pay but get their board and keep), is to have Soviet workers put together in Russia a first-class Red Navy out of parts made abroad. This incipient "Assembled Navy," the first in world history, is now in the hush-hush stage, but last week the U. S. State Department announced that the U. S. S. R. has suddenly become the largest customer for U. S. war materials, and that last month the first shipment of disassembled...
Dictators Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler lead the world in making millions of young people take healthful exercise whether they want to or not. but Neville Chamberlain was too wise to ask his British audience to look with admiration on the bronzed, athletic youth of any place except Scandinavia. "I am afraid," cried tentative Orator Chamberlain, "that in this matter [physical culture] some other nations, and especially Scandinavians, have got ahead of us, but I am confident we shan't be long in making up for lost time! ... I appeal for a concentrated and determined crusade against ignorance, carelessness...