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...that world revolution was at hand. There were also mistakes to remember, particularly the mistake of failing to return to Moscow for Lenin's funeral, a failure which under mined his popularity with the people, made him vulnerable to Stalin's intrigue. There followed expulsion from the Polit buro, exile to Turkestan, to Turkey, to France, to Norway, finally to Mexico, where last week fate caught up with...
...Last week occurred another momentous polit co-economic event. The U. S. collected 8% on its June 15 War Debt payments. Britain paid as a "token'' $10,000,000 in silver (at 50? per oz.) which the President declared was no default. That France was in default, no one could deny. Like six other debtors, she paid nothing...
...with all the ingredients for a polit ical change at hand, Democrats were by no means so sure as they were two months ago. On their side was the great historical fact that not once in the last 58 years had the party in power lost control of the House at a mid-term election without also losing the Presidential election two years later. The reasonable discontent which produced the Democratic House victory in 1930 was stronger, if anything, today after three full years of Depression. All that seemed necessary was to translate reason able discontent into winning votes...
JOSEF VISSARIONOVITCH STALIN, 48, virtual dictator of the Soviet Union, is the General Secretary of the Polit-bureau (Political Bureau) of the Communist Party, in which the supreme power of the party is vested. Like his comrades, M. Stalin (Starleen) suffered imprisonment and banishment for his revolutionary activities. He is distinguished by a well-shaped head surrounded by a shock of black hair, just beginning to grey. He has a silky black mustache. His eyes are black, and rarely is there a gleam of merriment in them. His facial features suggest cruelty-a hard mask of oriental ruthlessness...
...other lands are considered as for- eigners) and Italians who violate their provisions outside of Italy. For example, a person who commits a crime against the "personality" of the state, or counterfeits the seal of state, or falsifies Italian currency, or who "offends" on foreign territory the rights or polit- ical interests of Italy or of an Italian subject, is amenable to the statutes. Moreover, any foreigner tried and acquitted, or convicted and sentenced in the country in which the crime was committed may be retried and acquitted or convicted by the Italian courts...