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Shvernik's successor as trade-union boss, and perhaps as Vice President of the Soviet Union, is Vasili Vasilevich Kuznetsov, who is even more cosmopolitan than Shvernik-he was educated at Carnegie Tech and worked in a U.S. Ford plant. When he returned to Russia, he reported so enthusiastically about his life & times in the U.S. that friends kept snapping: "Well, if you liked it so much there, why don't you go back?" Conforming to Peter's Western ideal, he is clean-shaven...
...nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet military experts into the anti-Japanese camp, yet leaving Moscow technically guiltless of having taken hostile action against Tokyo. According to the Nanking version, last week Soviet Ambassador to China Dmitry Vasilevich Bogomolov, who recently flew from Nanking to Moscow on a secret mission (TIME, Oct. 18), is about to fly back with news that Outer Mongolia will soon rejoin China with the blessing...
Died. Anatoly Vasilevich Lunacharsky, 58, Soviet Ambassador to Spain, dramatist, and longtime (1917-29) People's Commissar for Education; of arteriosclerosis; in Menton, France. Communist 100-percenters viewed him as a "liberal" and an esthete, were horrified when he held up the Moscow-Leningrad express for his actress wife, finally forced his resignation...
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