Thank you for visiting SNEWPapers!
Sign up free
The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
What is this article about?
Soviet Foreign Affairs Commissar Maxim Litvinoff sends congratulations to Professor Otto Schmidt, injured leader of the Chelyuskin Arctic expedition in Nome, Alaska, and to the rescue pilots at Vankarem, praising their heroism in saving the crew from ice floes.
Clipping
OCR Quality
Full Text
Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Maxim Litvinoff, sent congratulations to Professor Otto Schmidt, at Nome, Alaska, where the leader of the Chelyuskin expedition lies, sick and injured.
"I am sending my hearty greetings to you and to all the heroes of the Chelyuskin. Together with the whole country, I watched your struggle with the elements in the Arctic ice floes, the struggle that was carried on under your leadership by a courageous group that demonstrated to the entire world an example of real Bolshevik organization and grit. I wish you the speediest recovery and return to our common cause of socialist construction."
Previously Professor Schmidt had wired Moscow as follows: "I am happy that all were saved, and tremendously grateful to the Soviet Government for the bold way in which it conducted the rescue operations, without which success would have been impossible. I shall probably have to remain here for about a month."
Litvinoff's second message was addressed to the pilots Molokov, Kamanin, Slepnov, Vodopianov, Doronin, Lapidevsky and Levanevsky, at Vankarem:
"I send my hearty greetings to our heroes, the pilots who with their
What sub-type of article is it?
What keywords are associated?
What entities or persons were involved?
Where did it happen?
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Arctic
Key Persons
Outcome
all crew saved; schmidt sick and injured, to remain in nome for about a month
Event Details
Maxim Litvinoff, Peoples' Commissar for Foreign Affairs, cabled congratulations to Professor Otto Schmidt in Nome, Alaska, praising the Chelyuskin expedition's struggle against Arctic ice under Schmidt's leadership and wishing his recovery. Schmidt wired gratitude to Moscow for the government's rescue operations. Litvinoff also messaged the pilots Molokov, Kamanin, Slepnov, Vodopianov, Doronin, Lapidevsky, and Levanevsky at Vankarem, greeting them as heroes.