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...Arkadi Rosengoltz, Ambassador Bullitt had "a long and interesting conversation." Necessarily, however, his Moscow visit was devoted not to trade but to finding suitable quarters for a U. S. Embassy.- The Soviet Government offered to rent the huge mansion on Spasopeskovskaya Square which was once the residence of a Tsarist textile tycoon, is now the reception house of the Soviet Central Executive Committee. This, Mr. Bullitt said, will do, temporarily, but he decided that in Moscow the U. S. should follow the example of France and build an embassy. Pure water the Ambassador hoped to get by sinking artesian wells...
...books like Time, Forward! would go a long way to persuade the White world that Red Russia has found in co-operative work a real moral equivalent of war. The Author began his literary career by writing humorous sketches for Russian newspapers. Before that he had been a soldier. Tsarist against the Germans, a Red artilleryman against the Whites. Now in Moscow (he was born in Odessa) he has beaten his sword into one of Russia's most trenchantly successful pens. Sharp of nose, chin, ear and eye, with black hair dipping into an acute widow's peak...
...State by chubby but earnest and intense Premier Vyacheslav Michailovich Molotov (M in the cut). His real name is Scriabine, Lenin's was Ulyanov and Stalin's is Dzhugashvili (pronounced "zoo-gash-vee-lee"). Soviet leaders are proud of their violent, revolutionary records which the Tsarist police could only class as criminal. Stalin, many times a bank robber (to get funds for the Party) and assassin of Tsarist officials, is especially proud of his alias Stalin, meaning "Steel...
When Revolution came to Russia, Ace Hall escorted a Tsarist General's wife and her fortune in jewels out of the country. His wartime decorations include the British Cross of St. George, French Médaille Militaire and Croix de Guerre (three palms) and Russian Cross of St. Vladimir. As a salesman and scout for U. S. aviation companies he went to China, wangled a job as instructor of the air force of the Nanking Government and took the name of General Chan. Two years ago he deserted with seven pilots to the Southern Canton Government, proclaimed, "Our Canton...
...last week Russia had still clung, through a thousand skirmishes, intrigues and bandit wars, to her original line across North Manchuria, a road named the "Chinese Eastern Railway" in a deliberate attempt by tsarist statesmen to disguise its Russian character. Built on the extra wide five-ft. Russian gauge, the C. E. R. is more than 1,000 miles long and famed for its towering, broad-beamed cars. Manchuria n ponies scatter whinnying with terror at the vast clouds of smoke belched by wood-burning C. E. R. locomotives. Chinese bandits, observing a peculiar etiquet. never blow...