PANOPLIES: Medals from Stalin

A special committee picked by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (Parliament) last week announced the seven winners of the new International Stalin Peace Prizes—gold medals bearing the image of Joseph Stalin and cash bounties of 100,000 rubles each (about $25,000). In the order of precedence:

France's Professor FRÉDÉRIC JOLIOT-CURIE, 51, veteran Communist dismissed a year ago from the post of High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, now president of the Communist World Peace Council.

China's Madame SUN YATSEN, 60, widow of the founder of the Chinese (Kuomintang) Republic, sister-in-law and political foe of...

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