Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-06-25

tered the grimy Railways.
After a period of waiting. l
was conducted TO a spacious
office the only decorations of
which were a portrait of Lenin
and another of Felix Dzerjin-
sky, the creator OF the Tcheka.
Two men in uniform sat at
table. One was short and fat.
The other seemed hardly more
than a pair of piercing eyes
in a landscape of prominent
bones.
l was not questioned. They
were well informed about my
past. All they wanted was 10
verify my identity and obtain
a photograph for my Commu-
mist students pass card.
/ was instructed to use the
name Of Adolf Heller during
my stay in the Soviet Union.
All students used assumed
names to safeguard them
against informers of foreign
police departments.
Anonymity was essential for
the work we were expected
TO do. ! was warned 10 be
wary sbout communications
with strangers. l was also
requested not 10 send letters
by mail 10 friends or relatives
abroad. All letters with for
eign destinations were to be
turned over to the secretary
of the International Club.
They would be brought 10
Berlin by the weekly courier,
and posted there so as not 10
show their Soviet origin. The
real reason for this was a
strict censorship of outgoing
communications by the GPU.
Then | was photographed.
Before l left. the cadaver-
ous-looking official made a
short speech. Except for his
accentuation of each sentence
with a jerk of his corpse-like
head, he might have been
talking to himself.
No doubt, he had made the
same speech thousand times
or more.
Maintain unshakable prole-
tartan discipline" he con-
eluded. "You are a guest of
The Soviet Union. You shall
become its son. Prove your
self worthy of our common
historical task. Be worthy of
the great tradition of the
Soviet Revolution"
The morning after Ryatts
return from Moscow, l at
tended my first lecture in the
international division OF the
Communist University. The
central building of this acad-
envy of Bolshevist theory and
practice was the former palace
Of the duma. now the Uritzky
Palace, facing one of the
largest garden squares in the
world.
The lofty windows, the
columns and marble stair
ways, the paneled wall and
enormous candelabraS, the
whole massive Splendor of a
vanished regime. brought
home TO the newcomer a
realization of the complete
ness of the Bolshevist triumph.
From the secret schooling
circles in the cZariSt prisons
and underground novels to
this magnificent palace!
The somber portraits Of the
giants of the Revolution were
everywhere. Emblazoned in
stone we're the words. Work
ers of the World, Unite!
Over 5000 students attended
the Communist University in
the Winter of .1925-26. The
large majority were Russians,
who were trained for political
and administrative work in
the party machine, the eco
nomic councils, in the trade
unions and co-operatives. in
the Red army, the Red navy
and the GPU, and for func-
tons in the great number OF
Communist auxiliary organiza-
tons.
FOREIGN STUDENTS
The foreign students were
incorporated in the nterna-
tional division which occupied
20-odd rooms on the second
floor of an adjoining building
which once housed the Lenin-
grad garrison. The Chinese,
Japanese, Koreans and Malays
had their own University of
the Peoples of the East" in
Moscow. and a smaller one,
the Pan-Pacific University. in
VladivoStok.
American Communists had
their special department in
the University of the Peoples
of the West" also in Moscow.
Each of the foreign groups
Of the Communist University