RUSSIA: Davies & Bolshies

"There is a strange charm which binds you like a narcotic addict in chains to this marvelous country." —Walter Duranty last week from Moscow.

Before quitting Russia to make for Manhattan this week aboard the Queen Mary, then recross the Atlantic to attend the Coronation of George VI, successful new U. S. Ambassador to Russia & Mrs. Joseph E. Davies gathered at their Spasso Palace in Moscow last week the flower of the Red Army, to be exact its three toughest plants: Voroshilov, Tukhachevsky and Budenny.

These three were "comrades" to their...

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