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...After Dictator Josef V. Stalin, the starving Russians most hate George Bernard Shaw for his accounts of their plentiful food. . . . There is insufficient feed and many peasants are too weak to work on the land and the future prospect seems blacker than the present. The peasants no longer trust their government and the change in the taxation policy came too late...
...Petrzalka, Czechoslovakia, on the complaint of a woman who thought that she had been sold dogmeat, police raided the butcher shop of Josef Lehanec, found hundreds of smoked rats hanging from his hooks, arrested him on a charge of butchering without a license...
...Josef Stalin or the Soviet State but the Moscow City Soviet issued last week a decree as dreadful as those which forced Chinese to cut off their pigtails, Turks to doff...
...most successful effort yet imported from England, is a more than passable program picture. Conrad Veidt is one of the dankest villains ever to infest a wagonlit; Director Walter Forde gives you the feeling of a train, not with two reels of atmosphere shots like the ones Josef von Sternberg used in Shanghai Express but with a sharp eye for dramatic touches. Good shot: the hand of a corpse hanging out of a berth, swinging as the train rocks...
...name of that worthy, honest, unassuming man, President Ignatz Moscicki of Poland. On the other hand the world has heard too much about the eccentricities (slanderously said "to amount to madness") of the great Polish soldier-statesman whom only Poles are temperamentally equipped to obey and understand. Marshal Josef Pilsudski. A dictator with a small "d," he refuses to be President, detests the Premiership, publicly calls the Polish Parliament a prostitute when he can think of no fouler epithet and rules Poland through a Cabinet clique called "the Pilsudski Colonels...