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December 5, 1931

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SOVIET WILL STRIVE IN NEW PLAN TO LIFT BURDENS OF PEOPLE; Revision of Program for 1932 Expected to Show Trend to Light Industries. SEVERE STRAIN IS ADMITTED Public Has Had to Bear Rigors While Big Industries Were Constructed Far Inland. WAR BASES ESTABLISHED Now Government Feels It Can Make Return for Ruthless Sacrifice Demanded of the Public. Protected Steel Centres Built. SOVIET WILL LIFT PEOPLE'S BURDENS Party Conference Significant. To "Storm Over the Top" in 1932.

By Walter Duranty. Wireless To the New York Times

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HITLER BACKS DEBTS, BARS REPARATIONS; SEES VICTORY SOON; German Fascist Rejects "Extortion by a Nation SaturatedWith Arms and Gold."SOUNDS LONDON AND PARISFrench Becoming Reconciled on Private Assurance He Will ActLegally and Keep Order.MARK SINKS IN SCARE HERERumor That Germany Would EndGold Standard and Suspend External Debts Is Denied Later. Reparations Are Repudiated. HITLER BACKS DEBTS, BARS REPARATIONS Agrees With Borah. SOUNDS LONDON AND PARIS. Hitler Indicates Modified Views-- Paris Reconciled to Rise. Change on Reparation. Prussian Elections Awaited. Followers Are Feared.

By Guido Enderis. Special Cable To the New York Times

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Notable Births

1931Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer and manager (died 2011)[†]

Ladislav Novák was a Czech football defender and later a football manager. He played 75 matches for Czechoslovakia, 71 of them as a team captain.

Notable Deaths

Vachel Lindsay

1931Vachel Lindsay, American poet (born 1879)[†]

Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was an American poet. He is considered a founder of modern singing poetry, as he referred to it, in which verses are meant to be sung or chanted.