RUSSIA: New Spots, Old Skin

Because he gets around the world much more than other Bolshevik statesmen, Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinoff, smart, roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar, has been tub-thumping for years in highest Moscow circles for some move to put a better face on the tyranny of ruling 147,000,000 Russians by means of a secret police of unlimited terroristic power. Last week Comrade Litvinoff got his way and dispatches from Moscow led U. S. headline-writers to splash out with SOVIET ABOLISHES ITS SECRET POLICE.

Actually the Ogpu was not abolished but Dictator Stalin deftly changed its spots,...

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