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et rem ig al el eet —a 4 a teeta Sa el a a dete ek ~—~r The scrap beck contained an articlo in the Russicn Lenguage which epreared in the "Litersry Gazutto" dated July 20, 1935. Tho articlo wo Saplo cicned by DELLTAN and was translated ty Special Ex veo It is s.* out in part, as follows: Leu "T found PANS BISLEP ct work. Ho was dictating an artielo for one of the Moscow rnevepanors. while woiting for my interview, I tegan to cxamine som. beoks which were pleced in a sm.ll group ons shelf. ‘Companions Forevor'-- tTRevolutionsry artists! <-- MARK -- ENGELS -- LENIN -+ and STALIR. ty attention was drevm to the German translation of 'CNAPAzv? a "Only recexrtly have I “cracked! FURMA! MNOV', smilingly said HalS ESISLER. 'T road CHAPARY all the wey from imerica to mureps. vhet strength! What bottomless, rovolutionir: passion and energy! I couldn't tecr mysclf amy from this beck. Those are the talents which wo revolutioncry writers and ertists of the West must have. In what is tho uplifting strength of such works as CHAFATV? It is that in thom is revived not only the meenificent talents eof the artists, but also tho fiery Cormumistic ambition. Only that kind of .unity can jive ercations of heroic scrength. Yu "!tt am firmly convinced,' continucd EISLIA, ‘that the more heroic roations in Soviot litersturo will b> done roslistically. # m ty 3... Bven now some Sovict authors tro boing honored throughout the world. This wos cloarly displayed ct tho Internstionel Congross in Paris. &™ . .“Moentioning the Puris Congress gavo EiANS SISLER's ideas an impetus in another directicn: Ho sposks of the Congress os being one of the best symptoms which show the turning of the foreign living intolligentsia towards rovolution.we "'foke a newspaper and rend tho list of nares of those attending ond taking part in the Congress for the Defense of Culture. It is durbfounding. Hany of thoso poople I hve known for a long tine, and five yoars ago I could not imagine that they wculd so scon be in our comp. No smaller symptom was the group of revolution:ry cuthers from America. Our roncs are widening cand eur confidonce in the inevitable collapso of Fascism becomes stronger day by any. Ks Veeeee SLSLER oxeitingly speotks of the ‘min with glessos’ who appeared at tho Paris ‘Conzress. ‘Is not this seeno full of dram ond signific cance? The bost artistic minds cf tho Vest aro giving up thoir studics ond cro boing @rovm into tho revolutiésary strugcie. The ers of "priostly" (religious) ort. is coming to sn ond. How can we, tho artists, help but fol elated? ‘vo who hove dyed our fato with tho fate of the working classes, the fato ef rovolu- tionists, sith our own blcodt 7 ~ 173 =