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...another room' a U.S. Army officer tackled Marshal Budenny for a signature on his short-snorter. Budenny refused to sign his name on Soviet currency with Lenin's picture. Then he refused to sign the currency of any sovereign nation. Finally he wrote his name on a plain slip of paper. Budenny and the American drank a toast. "May the next one be in Berlin," said the American. Bowing low, Budenny hoped the next would be much sooner than that...
German High Sea Fleet had mutinied when ordered to sea, into Berlin, where Karl Liebknecht had unfurled the red flag from the German Emperor's palace, down the Danube to Hungary, where gangs of Communist "Lenin boys" had killed a thousand citizens in three weeks, the solemn news of the victory that was really, defeat came through House's spies to the Conference. The dead still lay in the houses of Belgrade that the Austrians had shelled into ruins. Bonsal had walked un moved over the battlefields at Verdun, where many of the corpses were still unburied, "with...
When founding father Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (N. Lenin) died 20 years ago last week, Russia's foremost biochemist and anatomist were ordered to preserve the frail little man's mortal remains for posterity. A black and red marble pyramid was erected on Moscow's Red Square. Inside the embalmed body was laid out, under glass, in a quiet vault where the people could file silently by. War closed the tomb's door, but last week Moscow scientists made their annual report: "Excellent color in the skin, firmness and elasticity of connective tissues, flexibility of the joints...
...Lenin and Stalin have lighted...
Poet Untermeyer's lyrics drew an editorial from the New York Herald Tribune, which noted that he had telescoped the hymn's "the great Lenin lighted our path; Stalin reared us faithful to the people," to a simple "Lenin and Stalin have lighted the way." Quipped the Tribune: "In Russia, a land of nice dialectical distinctions, poets have been shot for less...