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Show Duration cf Soviet Rule Easily Proved "Comrade" Kalinin is president of the soviet union. lie is a peasant by origin. Like all good presidents Kalinin Ka-linin makes a speech occasionally, lie makes a specialty of addressing peasant audiences. Not long ago he made a speech at a farmers' reunion not so far from Nignix. The president presi-dent was drawing a grandiloquent picture pic-ture of life under the soviet regime. At the outset he told his peasant-listeners peasant-listeners that Eussia was the first country to throw off the yoke. Suddenly Sud-denly he was interrupted. Interruptions Interrup-tions are' not infrequent in peasant districts. "We have land and freedom," free-dom," cried one farmer, "but under the czar some of us had three pairs of pants and now we have only one." "Comrades," replied the comrade-president, comrade-president, "the negoes of Africa have no pants at all." "How is that?" came back the voice from the audience. audi-ence. "You told us we were the first to be sovietized, but if those people in Africa have no pants nt all, they must have had soviet rule for at least 20 years." Pierre Van Passen, in the Atlanta Constitution. |