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First important stop was at Kharkov, fine and flourishing "Industrial Capital of the Ukraine," the political capital being Kiev, "Mother of Russian Towns." In Kharkov rises the modernistic Palace of State Industry, "largest office building in Europe," the tallest sections 13 stories high. In efforts to get droning Red Bureaucrats inside to bestir themselves, the Kharkov managing staffs of a section of the latest Five-Year Plan have been satirized in Soviet films showing languid Communist typists squirting perfume over themselves and ogling their Bolshevik bosses-a deliberate exaggeration like all Communist propaganda. Last week Red bosses and Red typists...
...awards are to: Bartholomeus J. Bok to determine the radial velocities of faint stars; Samuel H. Cross to prepare for publication a translation of the Laurentian Chronicle, a history of the Principality of Kiev, and a volume of memorial essays on A. S. Pushkin...
Notoriously it has been necessary to staff the higher branches of the Red Army with former Tsarist officers who have been gradually retiring as younger Communist officers step into their boots. Announced Pravda last week with pride: "The commanding staff who participated in the recent Kiev maneuvers were about 6% workers and 30% collective farmers. . . . The commanders of the Red Army are assisted by the attentions of the Communist Party, the solicitude of the Soviet Government, and the fervent love of the Soviet people." Simultaneously the Government abandoned for the first time the Communist doctrine that Russia's army...
...Socialist United States built by ballots are to be humored and cajoled into aiding Communists whose aim is to forge a Socialist Soviet United States by violence and bring it into the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. Washington would then stand in the same relation to Moscow as Kiev which today is the obedient capital of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic...
...assassination was indeed a major inside job, the only kind of job that could conceivably get the Dictator himself. On the growing hypothesis that steel-nerved Stalin for once has been badly scared, his executions of "pure terror'' and continued arrests were understandable last week. Down in Kiev, ancient, church-jammed Mother Town of All The Russias, star chamber trials continued under famed Judge Ulrich. Meanwhile Comrade Nicolaev, the assassin of "Dear Friend Sergei," remained alive awaiting trial...