FAMINE AND LUXURY
-O- “ $ CONTRASTS IN RUSSIA GAY KREMLIN SCENE. LONDON, May 2. Contrasting with the famine throughout Russia, a 70ft long buffet, piled with costly food, was provided at the first diplomatic reception held in the Kremlin since the fall of the Czar, reports the Moscow correspondent of the News-Chronicle. The reception was in honour of the Prime Minister of Turkey. Groups of uniformed commissionaires rushed to open the doors of limousines bringing the President (M. Molotof’s) 1500 guests. Flunkeys with (lowers lined the rcd-carpeted steps. Red generals, flaming with medals won since the war ended, brightened the drab crowd of men wearing lounge suits. A jazz baud did its best ’to liven the 200 ft hall.' As the Soviet frowns upon dancing, only a few couples took the floor.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 9
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