The tamed Gothic Cathedsa} snow place of Santander, was de stay was the Bank of Spain bul me iremen from Madrid itboo, Valadold and. Burgos hid the fre Under coutel early today "Althouse damage vias treble, aauetles "ait undetermined, ere believed to be tow, Te fire started on. Sanday "when tne hurricane blew "a high tension fable on to" am all tanker which Surat to flames that spreed replay Inthe wind, the. drat of Santander's tio preious tres, S380, razed. almost the ntre town initia, dmamitefauenstermar exploded "cine 800 injuring 1000 and staring. fire, Most of the present destruction oc~ curred in the "old city" area of Santander—United Press, New Oil Policy in Litvinov Expelled From Party MIN, Maxim Litvinov, former Russian Moscow, Feb; 22, Foreign Commissar, and two other Russian leaders yesterday were expelled "from the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Two others [were demoted to the rank of alternate, In, all cases, reasons given for expulsion were "inability. to discharge obligations to the Party."
"The Committee sternly reprimand-M, Kaganovich, former Commissar of the Alreratt Industry, for his work" and warned him that unless he performed his present jobs better he would be entirely expelled from. the "Central Committee and [Government posts, 'A similar fate awaits the Commis Jeats of the Merchant Pleet, Chemical Ammunition, Fish, Electrical Industries and the River Fleet unless they improve their work and learn 2 proper lesson from the Communist Party's criticism,"
"The Committee nominated sixteen other new candidates for the Central Committee, (Rumours were being feireulated "in Belgrade diplomatic flteles that M, Vielor Plotnikoff, the Soviet, Minister to Yugoslavia," had been "Hiquidated" in Russia, Te was recalled that M, Plotnikoff was sum-Jmoned to Moscow recently with other [Soviet diplomats to the Balkans for a 'M. Litvinov visited the United, States in 1933 and obtained American. recognition of the Soviet Union, He fse obtained for Russia a seat in the [Council of the League of Nations, He was "released from his post through his own request" May 4, 1939,—United Press.
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