RUSSIA: Soso was Good'

The cloak of personal secrecy which has always masked Soviet Dictator Stalin was ripped up one side fortnight ago by United Pressman Eugene Lyons, slit down the other side last week by New York Timesman Walter Duranty, and finally slashed to tatters from the rear by New York Evening Postman H. R. Knickerbocker.

Mother. The Dictator's rear is Tiflis. His mother lives there in two rooms of what was once the palace of Tsar Nicholas' viceroy of Georgia—the land where Stalin was born. Primarily the palace is now occupied by the Soviet...

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