Far-Reaching Changes In Soviet W ar Machine
d 1 reived 10 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. The Moscow .orrespondent of the “Daily relcgraj.'- " says far-reaching changes in the Soviet’s war machine
The single command
t all the arm-'d 'drees has been abandoned. at least in principle, and a separate Commissariat of War and Naval Affairs lias been created entirety independent of M. Voroshiloff, Minister of War, who previously was U lO supreme defence lord on land and sea and in th< air.
Boris Smirnoff becomes Commissar of War and Mekhlis, Jewish editor of “Pravda,” Vice-Commissar of Defence in charge of rlie Red Army’s Political Department.
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Northern Advocate, 3 January 1938, Page 5
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