SOVIET AIRMEN
WELCOMED BACK AT MOSCOW DRIVEN TO KREMLIN IN FLOWER-DECKED CARS Press' Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MOSCOW, June 25. M. Stalin visited the aerodrome to welcome the transpolar airmen, Dr Schmidt and M. Vodopianov, in company with scores of Soviet leaders, whoso attendance contradicted rumours of their arrest. An airman sprang on to the dais and kissed M. Stalin, after which Vicepremier Churber declared: “Russians, now that the Tukhacevsky gang is destroyed, are more devoted than ever to national defence.” Dr Schmidt said: “When we heard over the wireless of Tukhacevsky’s treason, we decided to give our last drop of blood to defend M. Stalin.” Flower-decked cars bore the airmen along the eight crowded miles of the highway to the Kremlin.
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Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 9
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