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...paunchy Milan Stoyadinovich, whom he had just visited for three days. Although Yugoslav officials had issued a carefully worded communique during the Delbos visit admitting in lukewarm terms that Yugoslavia is still a member of the League, almost before the Delbos train chugged away from Belgrade, Vreme, semi-official newsorgan of Premier Stoyadinovich, boasted that "all mention of the League of Nations was deliberately omitted" in the Premier's banquet toast to Minister Delbos...
According to Pravda, official newsorgan of the Communist Party, the counting of ballots cast in the Stalin District on the outskirts of Moscow, where the candidate was Stalin himself, was an occasion tense with emotion. "The first envelope is slit!" exclaimed Pravda. "All eyes are directed to it. The chairman takes out two slips- and reads loudly and distinctly 'COMRADE STALIN...
Since each ballot was printed with two names (the name of a candidate for the lower house and the name of a candidate for the upper house of the Supreme Soviet), the Government newsorgan Izvestia claimed that two scratched votes equaled only one scratched ballot-that is, one voter who balked at voting for the candidates put up by Mr. Stalin's friends...
...victims have been the President and Premier of two Union Republics, both suicides; a most illustrious Marshal of the Red Army and seven of his Generals, all shot; the onetime Chief of the Soviet Munitions Trust, shot; even the Editor of the Soviet State's own newsorgan Izvestia, who was arrested. In Russia, where it is impossible to throw up one's job and flee, since the greater part of the Soviet frontier is sealed with barbed wire and guarded day and night, the number of suicides among Russians of consequence is said to have touched as high...
Meanwhile, the London Daily Herald, newsorgan of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, angrily editorialized that the British Government had secretly "recognized" the Franco Government, getting ahead of Britain's own Scheme to recognize only Franco's belligerent rights. "This is a monstrous and disgraceful decision," cried the Herald. "Recognition of belligerent rights was a concession-a bribe if you like-to be paid for the withdrawal of volunteers, after the withdrawal. Now an even more far-reaching form of recognition is given in advance. The lever which might have secured withdrawal is flung away...