Word: voroshilov
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week aboard the Queen Mary, then recross the Atlantic to attend the Coronation of George VI, successful new U. S. Ambassador to Russia & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies gathered at their Spasso Palace in Moscow last week the flower of the Red Army, to be exact its three toughest plants: Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky and Budenny...
...this, Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov, Soviet Defense Commissar, replied with a speech promising that "when there shall be no further need for uniforms, the Red Army will put on civilian clothes!" After dinner the Red Army leaders were entertained by an Embassy showing of the musicomedy cinema Rose Marie. Three nights previously other Bolshevik bigwigs had been regaled with Naughty Marietta. "Each soldier in the Soviet Army," Red guests told Host Davies, whose wife's fortune came from food, "now receives 5,000 calories per day, whereas in the Tsarist Army the ration was but 3,300 calories...
...visiting Communists, who hear all about the "austerity and simplicity" of Big Reds. However, at 1 p. m. in the dacha of Rosengoltz the heiress from Manhattan and her corporation lawyer husband, who is rich in his own right, sat down to feast with handsome War Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and pouncing Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials. Three hours later the champagne was still being quaffed, and over coffee and liqueurs friendly questions & answers cracked for another two hours...
...Event of the week in every part of the Soviet Union was a local speech, duplicated by thousands of orators, echoing the keynote sounded at Moscow on the 19th Anniversary of the Red Army by Defense Commissar Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov. The official keynote: "The two countries which most threaten peace-Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan-have made no secret of their plans to attack the Soviet Union. . . . They are viciously sharpening their swords!" This was followed by what was said to be historically the first intimation that the Red Army, always described by Communist orators as "purely defensive," now seems...
...event of basic world importance which took place last week occurred in China. It was as if Hitler had been kidnapped by Goring or Stalin by Voroshilov. In fact the most powerful man in Eastern Asia had been kidnapped last week by one of his potent and ambitious countrymen, a Chinese who not many years ago was under treatment in the Rockefeller Hospital at Peiping for addiction to opium. Kidnappee was the Premier of China, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, the military conqueror of his country not many years ago (TIME, April 25, 1927). Kidnapper was "The Young Marshal," Chang Hsueh-liang...