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...London Daily Express tracked down a grey-bearded rabbi, proved that the rabbi was brother to Russia's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff. For 100 zlotys ($1,900) Rabbi Yankel Vallach talked. His brother, said he, was born Meyer Moses Vallach, was a pious Jew until Tsarist police clapped him into jail. There he met Bolsheviks Kamenev and Zinoviev, turned Communist, atheist. Released, he was made the fat-salaried manager of a sugar factory. He almost forgot his Communism but police jailed him again for helping his old friends. After that he met Lenin and Trotsky, directed...
...great day of Nov. 16, 1933, Russia continued to ask of President Roosevelt what she asked of his predecessors, loans so enormous that mere interest payments would more than suffice to pay off the $800,000,000 of outstanding claims of the U. S. Government and citizens against Tsarist, Kerensky and Bolshevik Russia...
Historic Smolny was founded in Tsarist days as a finishing school for aristocratic young ladies. Elegant isolation was to produce "a new species of humanity." In bloody October 1917, barrack-like Smolny became the stronghold from which Bolsheviks defied and finally conquered Kerensky. In the ex-finishing school's assembly hall met the Second All-Union Congress of Soviets to proclaim the Bolshevik Government and the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. For months Lenin and Trotsky lived and worked in schoolgirls' rooms at Smolny, signing death warrants, decrees and proclamations...
...credits to be extended to Russia by U. S. firms on the basis of Red orders in a volume of some $50,000,000 per year. Part of the interest charged Bolsheviks on these credits would go into the U. S. Treasury as indirect repayment of the Tsarist and Kerensky debts which Stalin & Co. positively refuse to acknowledge as such. It was this refusal, still maintained, which caused Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes to lay down the doctrine: no payment, no recognition (TIME...
...Tsarist Government paid no attention to Michurin. But Lenin encouraged him and the Soviet Commissariat gave him 20,000 acres which had belonged to a monastery, conferred on him the orders of Lenin and of the Red Banner. Comrade Michurin never bothered about money, reputedly refused a fat offer to work in the U. S. Last fortnight he wrote to Dictator Joseph Vissarionovitch Stalin, thanked him for raising "a lone experimenter, unrecognized and ridiculed, to the position of a leader and organizer...