The Archive · 1941

Quite Typical Claims

These are two quite typical claims and after the confusion which seemed to obscure the events of those first few weeks the world has been able to gain a very clear realization that the Nazis in spite of their undoubted strength have throughout the Ri sian c indulged in uniustifable bombast end. extravagant claims whereas Russian news and Russian Claims have taken a high place for reliability.

Lozovskv w: s born as fole Abramovitch- Dridzo, 63. years. the sob of a village to the nonsense put out by the here among the working people he started to le: rn about trade union organization, a subject on which Lo has since become an expert.

First Official Position In June 1917 after some differences of opinion over the party line during the October Revolution and over the method of handling trade union prebjems. he finally prevailed on them to accept his ways and became secre-|up on tary of the powerful Railwaymen's Union.

Lozovsky is elegant, not a fop, but almost. a dandy. He has been described as purposefully elegant as if he would use his appearance like his wit to emphasize the verbal mani-testations of. his lively and supple brain. He wears a beard and moustache. has well marked eyebrows and a rather flowing professorial mane of hair. His hands are beautifully, vent, his fingers white and rather The visitor from. Saigon stated that the rounds. in Indo-recently was read:

Brilliant Soviet Figure He is one of tthe most brilliant figures on the Soviet stage and at ihe beginning of the campaign he uttered a daring prophecy the fulfilment of which seems ne?rer today than it did a few weeks ago. "Hitler will leave the Soviet Union faster than he entered," said T^zovekv. "pud unlike Napoleon he wil only see the Kremlin on picture postcards"

One of Lozovsky's most effective manœuvres was the interruption of ihe official Nazi news broadcasts from the long wave Station Deutschlandsender by a voice which may well have been his own since he Speaks perfect German. The voice promptly christened "Der Snag" in England, would catch the broadcaster almost every statement and When the Nazis tried to jam it out they only jammed their own.

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