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GERMANY: New Reichstag

The German Communists have only one good man and that is a woman: Clara Zetkin.

—Lenin.

One summer day in 1925 dexterous Dr. Serge Voronoff had on his operating table a frail, weazened wisp of a woman. She was only 68 but German Reds hailed her as "The Grandmother of our Revolution!'' Years of bitter struggle had aged Frau Clara Zetkin before her time. She needed "rejuvenation." Dr. Voronoff did his best, grafted in bits of ovarian tissue, pronounced his operation "successful."

Early last week Grandmother Zetkin,...

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