Word: tsarist
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...Josef Stalin does not think so. He knows that Russia is a land of unlimited possibilities, almost unscratched resources and largely unused manpower. . . . Under the lash of his will I believe that the program outlined . . . will be accomplished. . . . Moreover M. Stalin has behind him young Russia, that never knew Tsarist slavery and is free from the faults and vices of servile psychology. He and they have a daring which Danton declared was a guide to victory and a faith which one greater than Danton said could move mountains...
...significant that last week the supreme command of the Soviet forces threatening China was entrusted to a Comrade-Commander who, paradoxically, once served in the Chinese Revolution as staff adviser to Marshal (now President) Chiang Kaishek. The Comrade-Commander is Vassili Constan-tinovitch Blücher, onetime oiler of Tsarist locomotives, today the most important man in Asia...
Swift to act, Comrade Blucher established his military headquarters at Novosibirsk. 1,500 miles from the Manchurian frontier, surveyed the situation. Soon he announced that the Red Russian positions were being constantly harassed by White Russian (ex-Tsarist) mercenary troops in the pay of the Chinese. Soon subordinate commanders on the Soviet front received this telegram from their new Generalissimo: YOU ARE DIRECTED TO EXTERMINATE ALL WHITE RUSSIAN FORCES WHICH ARE MENACING OUR LINES...
...Europe, last week when the deal was announced. If any one had told him six years ago when, a Russian immigrant, he founded his U. S. company, that in 1929 it would bring $2,500,000, he would have believed it. He has never lacked self-confidence. In Tsarist days he was his country's foremost aeronautical engineer. He designed the world's first successful multimotored plane (a four-motor job, 1913), flew the first multimotored seaplane (his own design, 1914), enabled the Russians to make the first heavy air bombardments...
...Assuming that Russia seriously pursues war she will undoubtedly win-unless Japan steps in. Japan could stem any Russian advance with comparative ease, in spite of the fact that the Russian army is today extremely well organized and much more efficient than it was in Tsarist days. It is well equipped, well armed and well clad, loyal and enthusiastic. . . . The Russia Air Force is large, well equipped and efficient...