RUSSIA: Red Notes

¶At the close of Red Army maneuvers, French General Lucien Loiseau told the official Red newsorgan Pravda, "In regard to tanks I consider the Red Army the first in the world. Frankly, I wish we had one like it."

¶A Nobel Peace Prize for Soviet Foreign Commissar "Maxie" Litvinoff was urged last week by the Swedish association, Friends of the Soviet Union. Meanwhile Comrade Litvinoff's alert British-born wife, Ivy, won her three-year fight to get Dictator Stalin to order every Red Army soldier to learn "Basic English,"...

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