RUSSIA: Man Of War

What sort of birthday present is suitable for a Minister of War?

In Moscow, when the 50th birthday of Commissar of War Klimentiy Voroshilov rolled around last week a public subscription was opened. With the proceeds three thumping birthday presents will be bought, presented to Comrade Voroshilov: a dirigible, "several combat planes,"— a submarine.

There was another present, even more splendid, for which Russia's popular man of war did not have to wait. On his birthday the city of Lugansk, where he was born, became Voroshilovsk. Throughout the...

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