RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks

J. Stalin is almost the only Big Red not yet met by new U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. & Mrs. Joseph Edward Davies, who by last week had definitely hit their stride in Moscow. Considering that most diplomats and their wives in the Soviet capital figure as "Capitalist spies" in the Communist press, it was notable last week that such prominent Soviet wives as Perfume Trust Manager Zhemchuzhina* and the spouse of Assistant Foreign Commissar Nikolai Krestinsky should have taken Mrs. Davies socially in tow on a round...

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