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...London and Geneva, had virtually said "Yes" to the Soviet terms for a big, ironclad Stop Hitler alliance between Britain, France and Soviet Russia. Soon afterwards in Moscow, able, lively British Ambassador Sir William Seeds went to the Kremlin to present his Government's views to Premier Viacheslav Molotov, also Foreign Commissar since the retirement last month of the veteran Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff...
...sensation of the week. Moscow's radio laconically announced shortly before midnight one night that Comrade Litvinoff had been relieved of his job at "his own request." The Commissar, it was explained later, was ill, had been suffering from heart disease. His job would henceforth be taken by Viacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, President of the Council of People's Commissars, a member of the all-powerful Political Bureau of the Communist Party, right-hand man to Dictator Joseph Stalin for some 15 years...
...informal farewell to U. S. Ambassador Joseph E. Davies, who was leaving for his new post at Brussels. As the train pulled out. a messenger from the Kremlin rushed up to Mr. Davies, handed him a small flat parcel. Inside were autographed pictures of Joseph Stalin and Premier Viacheslav M. Molotov...
...Stalin takes no chances. Attached to his nationwide espionage service, the Gay-Pay-Oo, or OGPU, are 110,000 picked troops, the praetorians of the Dictatorship. Never seen on so conspicuous a spot as Lenin's tomb is the Chief of the Gay-Pay-Oo, dyspeptic Viacheslav Rudolphovich Menzhinsky (below at left). The Gay-Pay-Oo have the right to seize anyone without a warrant, to try and condemn the prisoner without a jury...
Menzhinsky, The Chief of the G. P. U. is Viacheslav Rudolphovitch Menzhinsky, son of a former nobleman and a Pole, like his late, great predecessor Felix Edmundovitch Dzerzhinsky, first head of the Ogpu which was then called the Cheka...