IN RED CALICO.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 955, 27 December 1933, Page 5

IN RED CALICO.

Bolsheviks Celebrate a Big Occasion. ■MOSCOW ILLUMINATED. Five million extra candle power was spent -on the night of November 6 in illuminating Bolshevik Moscow. The whole city was dressed up in red calicos for the following day’s grand parade on the sixteenth anniversary of the revolution. Through this red glare colossal portraits of the “ Big Chiefs ” stared from hoardings and from the windows of every State office and State shop. *“ Live ” Stalins now easil3 r outnumber “ dead ” Lenins. The runners-up in this portrait exhibition are Kaganovich, the principal lieutenant of the moment, War Commissar Voroshilof, President Kalinin and Premier Molotof, in that order. The slogans and decorations were definitely dull. It was admittedly difficult to devise new reason for enthusiasm year after year. Amid the routine mottoes of the world revolution, the only pointed slogan this time was that warning the Japanese to keep their hands off Soviet territory. Addressing an audience of 4000 in the Grand Opera House, the Premier, M. Molotof, said the Far Eastern situation was most dangerous. “ The Japanese military people talk openly of making war without declaring war,” he said. “ We must be fully prepared for a possible unexpected attack. In that event our task is clear; the utter annihilation of the enemy and the total victory of the Red Army. (Loud cheers.) “ The real bosses in Manchuria are the Japanese, and they must be held responsible for everything that may happen.”