RUSSIA: Lenin

Officially Lenin is reported to be progressing favorably. Unofficially it is rumored that he has been dead for some weeks. As no one can see the Premier of the Russian Soviet Government, dead or alive, and as the press censorship is so severe that there is no possibility of a leak through official channels, the world will have to wait the pleasure of the parsimonious Bolsheviki.

In the interim between fact and probability speculation is still rife as to who will succeed Lenin. The latest theory is that when his death is...

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