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...Union and the Comintern, Third International or World Communist Party which is technically superior to both and retains its Moscow headquarters. On the other hand, M. Litvinoff promised that "it will be the fixed policy of the Government" of Russia (he could not promise for the Party headed by Josef Stalin) to "refrain" in the most scrupulous manner from any interference in U. S. affairs; to "restrain" from such interference "all organizations of the Soviet Government or under its direct or indirect control, including organizations in receipt of any financial assistance from it"; to refuse to harbor on Russian soil...
President Roosevelt announced his recognition of the Soviet Union in the dead of a Russian night. The great news spread chiefly by word of mouth. Correspondents, unable to get Josef Stalin or any other Soviet bigwig to say anything, scurried around Moscow buttonholing Russians at random on the streets, reported that most of them beamingly commented "Ochen horosho!" ("Very fine!"). In the big Moscow hotels, the National and the Metropole, tourists who were dancing to the Russian idea of U. S. jazz when the news came in cried "Whoopee!", ordered more vodka and Soviet champagne...
...specific. It instructs every Red Army commander "to train each Red Soldier to be devoted in heart and in soul to the World Revolution of the Proletariat." The issuing of such an order at such a time seemed to indicate a slip between the cogs of Dictator Josef Stalin's complex State machine. Last week that popular cog War Minister Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov had not yet returned from his junket to Angora where he congratulated Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha on the tenth birthday of the Turkish Republic (TIME, Nov. 6). Order No. 173 was therefore not signed by "Klim...
...helmets, filled the vast Red Square. All Moscow turned out to see who would bear the ashes of Comrade Katayama to their niche in the Kremlin wall. Millions of eyes fastened on a swart, powerfully built man in a long greatcoat who strode bareheaded through the snowstorm: Chief Pallbearer Josef Stalin...
...concert violinist if the War had not intervened. When Ruth was 2 he bought her a $10 toy piano. She wanted a "big one." He sold a diamond ring and got it for her. At 5 she had a repertoire of 200 pieces, could transpose them into any key. Josef Hofmann offered her a scholarship at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, but when he turned her over to an assistant Father Slenczynski packed her up and took her to Europe where he taught her himself, learning one piece after another just a jump ahead of her. Until she is bigger...