The Archive · 1938

First Soviet Parliament

Session Closes

"We Are Ready to Route Any Enemy"

Moscow, July 21.

Speeches by delegates from the Red Army and Navy received tremendous applause at the close of the first session yesterday of the newly-elected Soviet Parliament.

One of the delegates declared that "we are ready to route any enemy from whatever direction he may come, on his own territory or in his own waters."

Closing the session, the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the USSR, M. Zdanov, announced that unanimous decisions had been reached on all questions—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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