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...still approve your deed? Do you still approve of terror generally?" "I certainly do!" replied the Bomb Boy, who is a year younger than President von Hindenburg, "I certainly do!" Besides Josef Stalin the Society of For mer Political Prisoners (all of whom must have served bona fide Tsarist prison terms for revolutionary offenses) counts some 3,000 members, estimates that they spent collectively "almost 16,000 years in chains and 5.000 years undergoing other punish ment...
...metres of cloth woven in seven Moscow mills which once belonged to Tsarist Millionaire Morozov, over 7,000,000 metres have had to be discarded as "spoiled and useless...
...speaking the "Mayor" is President of the Moscow Soviet and its Presidium is the civic government. Not a burly, two-fisted "Old Bolshevik," Electrical Engineer Bulganin is small, studious, neatly dressed, a "Modern Bolshevik" much milder in type than Dictator Josef Stalin who used to blow up safes and Tsarist officials "in the name of the Revolution...
...Leningrad this system has already been applied to several streets. Last year buildings on both sides of the Nevski Prospect (No. 1 Tsarist boulevard) were painted. The former palace of Grand Duke Dmitri* was daubed brilliant red with glaring white trim. Leningrad's central ticket office was repainted three times in different color schemes until the Soviet was satisfied that it is "right." Civic gangs of plumbers and carpenters trailed after the painters, fixing people's water faucets, floors, roofs at inconvenient times with maximum gusto...
Jewry does not seek converts. It even discourages those few non-Jews who seek to join. Nevertheless, as sometimes happens, Jewry was petitioned in Warsaw by a Roman Catholic named Antoni-Stefan Raczynski. The Warsaw Rabbinate refused the application, was backed by the Minister of Education who cited a Tsarist ukase of 1905 granting religious liberty save to native Christians who wished to adopt non-Christian faiths. But Pan (Mr.) Raczynski appealed his case to the Supreme Administrative Tribunal at Warsaw, which three weeks ago reversed the previous decisions. Let the Rabbinate admit Pan Raczynski. The Tsarist ukase, said...