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...Russia and all the capitalist world, too, heard the voice of STALIN fortnight ago ordering alterations in Communism's course (TIME. July 13). Last week the Soviet ship of state trimmed sheets and shifted helm, did its best to make the suggestions of Skipper Josef Stalin law. Editors in foreign countries commenting on the speed with which any hints from Steel Man Stalin are acted on, remembered last week that practically every detail of what is already known as Stalin's New Policy (restoration of unequal wages, making peace with bourgeois technicians, etc., etc.) has long been advocated...
Came a picture of a laughing camel last week from Stalingrad-namesake town of Dictator Josef Stalin. At the Stalingrad Tractor Works ("world's largest") there have been 2,789 breakdowns of machinery in four months. Production for 1930 was scheduled at 50,000 tractors. It was 47,000 tractors behind schedule at the close of the year...
...Pilsudski, spruce, sleek-bearded, is the little brother of big Marshal Josef Pilsudski, walrus-mustached Dictator. Recently Col. Jan was made Finance Minister (TIME, June 8) and people wondered what he would do-for Col. Jan had had no previous fiscal experience whatever...
Usually Col. Jan does what he is told to do by Marshal Josef. Last week he was perhaps told to economize. Abruptly he announced that five of Poland's 13 provincial governments would be abolished "to save administrative expense," completed his chore-of-the-week by slashing $55,005,000 off the Polish Government's proposed expenditures...
...this palace have slept Madame de Pompadour, the Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Alexander I, Queen Victoria and the Sultan Abdul Aziz?though not all at the same time. Here Napoleon Bonaparte signed his second abdication as Emperor of the French. Here since 1873 have slept the twelve Presidents of the French Republic...