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Asked if she would allow her picture to be taken, Mme Dzhugashvili, suggested with visible embarrassment that her guests return later in the day. When they returned she had put off her everyday dress, put on her finest.
"I want to ask one thing," she said at parting, taking Correspondent Knickerbocker's hand in both her own. "Will you send one of those pictures to Soso?"
Fortnight ago Stalin himself told the United Press the number, sexes and ages of his children (sons 22, 10; daughter, 5). From his mother the Evening Post learned their names, and that Soso has twice wived. The first wife, Ekaterina, died of pneumonia just before the Revolution, was the mother of Eldest Son Yasha. The present "Mrs. Steel" is Nadezhda, her son Vassily. daughter Svetlana.
With some awe Stalin's mother spoke of her daughter-in-law's father. Alleluja.
"Alleluja was a great Communist," she exclaimed, "a friend of Lenin's!"
Son. To New York Timesman Walter Duranty last week Josef Stalin said two things of moment. Asked bluntly if U. S. citizens are not "arming" the Soviet Union for the final battle of Communism v. Capitalism by selling equipment to Russia, the Dictator shot back: "You might as well say we are 'arming' the Americans and helping them to maintain their Capitalist system against ours! . . . We pay them, don't we, for everything—pay top prices too!"
"No, that is nonsense," continued Stalin softly. "And all this talk of 'propaganda' is ridiculous. Propaganda doesn't do anything. Constitutions and systems are changed by natural causes, not by talk or books."
*The date: Jan. 26, 1879.