SOVIET CONSTITUTION
COMMITTEE OF REVISION
M. MOLOTOV CHAIRMAN
MOSCOW, February 8.
M. Molotov, president of the Council of People's Commissars, has been elected chairman of the committee to revise the Soviet Constitution. A cable published yesterday stated that the Congress of Soviets adopted reforms embodying the best features of the Parliamentary' system. M. Molotov. explained that the- collectivisation of farms' and the abolition of kulaks had terminated the; class system. The open ballot would give place to the secret ballot in order to establish demo-cracy-and check bureaucracy.. Peasants and-workers would be equally represented at the next elections, which would be based ori these reforms. Uni-. versal suffrage would soon.be attained.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 34, 9 February 1935, Page 8
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