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Meanwhile the new Soviet envoy to Rumania, smart Minister Mikhail Ostrovsky, arrived at Bucharest by a comfortable roundabout route. When he presented his credentials to King Carol without mentioning Bessarabia, Rumanian editors concluded that, despite Soviet geography books, Dictator Stalin has decided to drop that question...
...carry out this state butchery, Russia's Puppet President Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was obliged by the Dictator to cancel with a stroke of the pen most of the "progress" ostentatiously made when the Gay-pay-oo was transformed into the Commissariat of Interior under its Gay-pay-oo chief, Comrade Genrikh Grigorevich Yagoda (TIME, July 23). Last week Stalin was said to be so vexed with Yagoda that he had suspended him as Commissar of Interior. The decree of President Kalinin deprived persons arrested not only of any right to be defended by a lawyer but also of the right...
...QUIET FLOWS THE DON?Mikhail Sholokhov?Knopf...
...QUIET FLOWS THE DON-Mikhail Sholokhov-Knopf...
...Author. Mikhail Sholokhov writes as one having authority. A Don Cossack like his hero, he has been through the same mill. His accounts of cavalry fighting, of the drifting suspense of the soldiers returning from the front to a revolution they did not understand, of the bloody skirmishes between Reds and Whites, in which no prisoners long survived, of ruthless massacres by both sides, read like eyewitness reports...