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...Soviet North Pole scientists (TIME, Feb. 28), but the Dictator was not handing out any more hugs & kisses. Instead, at Moscow it was Death which all important officials of the Soviet North Sea Route Administration faced, as the Soviet Council of People's Commissars ordered them investigated for "treason," "wrecking." Professor Schmidt, often called by Moscow papers "the Commissar of Ice," was not identified by name as Arctic Wrecker No.1 last week, but he was fairly started on the downward slide-by Big New Bolshevik Stanislav Vikentevich Kosior...
...ring in ruthless fashion rammed all the most provocative Nazi doctrines home. Austrian Monarchists he first taunted, by referring to the head of the House of Habsburg as "This comic boy, Archduke Otto!" (guffaws) Grimly Göring warned: "If Legitimism†continues, it will be treated as high treason, regardless of whether the charge strikes at an archduke or a worker!" Meanwhile last week, put under Nazi lock & key near Salzburg was the first former royal and imperial highness to be arrested, 65-year-old Archduke Josef Ferdinand, husband of the young and comely former Gertrude Tomanek-Beyerfels...
...From the description of conditions in Russia and of Stalin given by New Bolshevik Butenko, it is not difficult to understand why he figured it was best for him to skip. Excerpts: "I personally attended many of those treason trials in Russia. . . . I know better than anyone else the horrible tortures with which the Bolsheviks have taken the lives of many worthy and innocent persons. . . . The Bolsheviks promised the people of Russia full and complete liberty and autonomy. They even proclaimed the 'free right of the different regional nationalities to leave at their will the Soviet Federation.' Every...
Wyeth, who won the Lee Wade award, delivered the address given by Robert Emmet in his own defense when he was sentenced to death for treason. McAllester, winner of the first Boylston Prize, recited excerpts from Robert Louis Stevenson's "Christmas Sermon...
...present trials for treason which are filling the newspapers stirred him to recall some of the figures whom he had known. Bukharin he described as a fanatic, but honest in his ideas in comparison with Yagoda. Furthermore he remembers Bukharin from the time when the latter was one of the Bolshevik leaders and he was the leader of the Popular party, as a cultured man, something which could not be said for Yagoda...