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Last week Tass, official Soviet news agency, reported that Peter Grozja, Russia's puppet Premier of Rumania, had called for the formation of a Soviet-sponsored league of Danubian states (presumably Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia...
...Tass, the Soviet news agency: an "everlasting" paint which its inventor, Russian Scientist Stepan Tumanov, says will resist the weather and keep its original fresh color for "thousands of years." Tumanov first made his paints of crushed jewels (rubies, emeralds, etc.), then substituted a cheaper material, colored corundum, which seemed to work just as well. He says his paint has passed all chemical and heat tests with high marks, expects it to be widely used by artists-especially makers of porcelain and stained glass and decorators of monuments...
Moscow lifted its blackout of news from Austria. A terse Tass dispatch from Vienna reported: a conference of Austrian political parties had proclaimed a new "Austrian Provisional Government." Chancellor and Foreign Minister was aging (74) Dr. Karl Renner, veteran Social Democrat, head of the Austrian peace delegation in 1919, first Chancellor of the Austrian Republic (1919-20). Thirteen other Cabinet posts were parceled among a coalition of Social Democrats (four), Christian Social (four), Communists (three) and Independents...
...ambitious son of a humble father, Constantine ("Kostya") Oumansky was 15 years old when the Bolsheviks seized power. Soon his facility for learning foreign languages (he could learn a new one in a month) won him a post in the Tass news agency. His journalistic career was said to have included secret-police duties. Journalism led to diplomacy. When Oumansky came to Washington as Russia's Ambassador to the U.S. (1939), a reporter asked him if he had ever been a GPU (secret police) agent. Said Ambassador Oumansky: "It is beneath my dignity to answer such a question...
Said Must Go. Except in Tabriz, Iranian troops patrolled the streets with armored cars or motorcycles mounting machine guns. In Tabriz, the Red Army simply locked the Iranian garrison in its barracks. Later, a Tass report said Iranian troops in Tabriz had fired on a "peaceful anti-Government demonstration," killed a demonstrator. The Red Army also cut off Iranian grain from the rest of Iran. Cried Kavtaradze and Moscow: Said must...