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...Although France is the chief asylum of Tsarist refugees and definitely the power most hostile to Russia, still, last week, La Société Pétrofina Française signed a new, bigger-than-ever contract for Red oil to be consumed in France...
...play soon closed, but Manhattanites had to look no further afield than their own judiciary and police department (TIME, Aug. 25, Dec. 29) to discover a parallel to Gogol's situation: A foppish pipsqueak from St. Petersburg, stranded penniless at a village inn, was mistaken for a tsarist inspector whose coming has been announced and for whom the rascally village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy Gish's part (her second off the screen) was only a small...
...everyone knows, the Tsarist courts had to punish Stalin for everything from advocating Communism to carrying out a daring series of bank robberies to obtain funds for his fellow revolutionists. From 1913 until the collapse of tsardom this "ferocious criminal" languished in exile near the Arctic Circle, having escaped from other jails...
Shouting these and many another slogan the people crowded round and edged as near as they dared to what in Tsarist times was the Nobles' Club, containing one of the most sumptuous ballrooms in all Russia, the famed "Hall of Columns." Red soldiers in their peaked caps kept the people back. Only those with tickets (all the New Yorkers had them) were admitted to the dazzling show: a session of the Supreme Tribunal of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
Judges in Flannel, Prisoners in Starch. White as when they looked down upon the Tsarist Court, the huge pillars of the "Hall of Columns" stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...