Moscow, May 7.
M, Joseph Stalin, by assuming the Chairmanship of the Council of the Peoples' Commissars, yesterday, became the third Soviet Premier since the revolution, For, although, as general secretary of the Communist Party, he was the country's acknowledged leader, he had held no other state posts other than as a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
Since M. Viacheslav Molotov succeeded M. Maxim Litvinoff as Foreign Commissar, M. Stalin also directly acted in foreign affairs and personally participated in the Soviet-German, Finnish, Turkish, Rumanian, Yugoslavian' and Japanese negoti United Press.
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