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After turning their well-tailored backs upon Red Russians for 15 years, sleek U. S. State Department officials cocked wary ears last week at a breeze of rumors that Josef Stalin in the Kremlin Palace and Franklin Roosevelt in the White House will soon be on formal, friendly diplomatic terms...
...Norris urged in Washington last week. Seasoned observers pointed out that the issue is actually not recognition but credits. Only in case the R. F. C. or some other great font of U. S. credit is opened to the Soviet Union would U. S. producers, still profoundly suspicious of Josef Stalin & Co., feel safe in accepting the flood of orders which Russia has stood ready for years to give on credit...
Nothing brings such a thunderous frown to the dark brow of Josef Stalin as reports from the farm front that food production is lagging. Promptly agents of his Gay-Pay-Oo pounce (usually at night) on peasant laggards, ship them off from their ancestral farms to saw wood and split rocks in bleak Siberia. All last year food shortage gripped the Soviet Union, peasant deportations continued, prophesies flew that a peasant "passive strike" might crack the Stalin regime...
...Died. Josef Rosenblatt, 51, world famed synagog cantor and concert singer; of a heart attack after completing a film for the American-Palestine Fox Film Co.; in Jerusalem. An orthodox Jew, he would not remove his vast beard even when offered $3,000 a night to sing in La Juive for the Chicago Opera Company...
Comrade Litvinov, born Wallach, first attracted world attention 27 years ago in Paris. In the streets of Tiflis in the Caucasus an armored truck of the Russian Imperial Bank had just been held up by a hard-eyed young revolutionary, later to be known as Josef Stalin. Pudgy Comrade Litvinov appeared at a window of the Credit Lyonnais in Paris with a sheaf of 500-ruble notes recognized as part of the Tiflis loot. Litvinov escaped to Britain after convincing French Republicans that the bank robbery was a political not a criminal act. In Britain he became a traveling salesman...