The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
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/ Inc plane Will arrive IN ~ minutes
perhaps 25.
Where will Dimitroff, Popof and
Taneff go from here2"
Manuilsky froWns. They'll have
somewhere to go to" says. But wait
Let them get here first. Just let it
be they who arrive. Until I see them
with my own eyes I/wont believe
anything"
We went outside to the snow
! covered landing ground. The silence,
the uncertainty are felt by all
II only we had known two or three
hours earlier, hundreds of thousands
/ Of Moscow workers would have gath
cred here. Now it is already too late
to warn them. Too bad, what pity!
But suddenly, from somewhere to
I the left. in the darkness, comes the
sound of many voices in songs Of
/ Joy, mingled with an orchestral march
/ tune. On, how we wanted music at
this moment! And it came. From
where? These were workers from the
1 factories of the KraSsnie PresSnie dis
trict, in the neighborhood of the air.
drome, miraculously finding out the
exciting news, literally in a few
minutes they gathered by thousands
into columns, and marched here with
banners and bands.
/ The expectation becomes unbear-
able! What if this is a fascist joke
after all? What if it isn't they in
the plane!
Plane Appears
Immense neon letters shine on the
/ cornice Of the airport, radiating far
into the black night: MOSCOW, writ
ten in three languages. 49,. They burn,
reckoning the aerial travellers, they
indicate a reliable landing place on
firm Soviet territory.
4 From the haze the flashing, blind
! ing CLEANS on the ends of the broad
wings of the immense plane appear.
They disappear a moment as the ship
circles to land, then again spread
low over the heads Of the people, The
roar of the motors gliding over the
/ land
Quick, into the cabin, even at the
risk of falling under the propeller!
Everyone eagerly strives to be the
first to break through, to learn who
is in the flying ship.
Dimitroff Steps Out
Unschlght, chief of Soviet ayia-
1 ton, is first to open the door. Then
to be the second-eaeh one wants to
4 be the second to be able to embrace,
4 to press the lips to the cold cheeks
I Of a live person really saved from the
Fascist hell.
Tired, but smiling, Dimitrof steps
out. How are you?" Foolish ques-
ton. He is calm He quietly smiles
and answers with simple gay
'Niechevol" in the Moscow man
ner.
Then noisy, joyful disorder. en-
! braces, cries. a crush, the sound of
( music, the closing Of automobile
doors. Then the lights of the city.
/ At last, the first conversation, in a
Soviet room, surrounded by friends
What Happened in Berlin
sWe were awakened at dawn, COM
manded to dress and gather our
things" said Dimitroff But where
to-we did not know. We were put
into an automobile, and rode to the
airport. 1t was only there that we
were told we were going to Moscow.
"For ten months we didn't see a
book or newspaper, excepting Fascist
ones They gave us the 'Pravda'
! for a short while after our acquittal,
then they stopped it again,
T IL lyv,arrF
| bad 80.
| Tall Blagoi Popoff and small, smil-
ing Vassil Taneff embrace their re-
latives. Dinlitrof looks tenderly at
his young conarades-in-arms -. Three
musketeers.
1--WE know to whom we owe our
! freedom" says DimitroH. IF it were
not for the Communist international,
the international proletariat and cur
press, if it weren't for the strength of
the Soviet working class, we wouldn't
be alive here"
Praise Embarrasses Dimitroff
Manuilsky interrupts him: That's
so, but don't be modest, don't diminish
your own role Your courageous ac-
ton in court, and that of your ccln-
rades had an immense significance for
the way the trial ended. You per-
sonally showed the example Of how
| a Bolshevik must behave before the
| fascist hangmen. This will be an
example for many others.
Il don't exaggerate if 1 say that
| from the prisoners dock at the Leip-
zig trial your ringing out the Boil
shevik truth brought many new mil
lion workers to the Communist In
ternational"
| Dimitroff is embarrassed. He who
did not get confused by the threats
/ of the alI-powerful ministers who
could arbitrarily dispose of his head,
was embarrassed by the praise of his
comrades heer at home, in the quiet
room in Moscow.
Soviet Citizenship Changes Treatment
He changes the conversation, tries
to go over to other subjects. Taneff
says:
Il have sat in savage prisons OF
backward Bulgaria. You can imagine
the treatment there. But honestly
the civilized German Fascists created
a still more insolent and heartless at
moSphere.
Only from the day we became So
Wet citizens the treatment immedi-
ately changed, and became quite po-
I lite"
Popoff relates; Their doctors are
big swine DimitrofT and 1 became
quite ill., Some sort Of doctor in
uniform came and said Show your
tongue. Gut, gut, and went away.
No results whatever No medicine or
] chance of diet We'll IFS all RIGHT