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The rumoured release of M. Daladier recalls the tragedy of minister whose name will be asso- ciated with some of the darkest days in France's history. It was Daladier's] head, particularly, that the Petain Government at one time wanted on a charger. He was accused of responsibility for the war that brought disaster,, defeat, humiliation and misery to France. Within the space of a few weeks, one of Franet's most popular statesmen was suddenly plunged into depths of disgrace and ad- versity. The men of Vichy were eager to use him as a scapegoat. A year before the war broke out he had
to share with Mr. Cham- berlain the doubtful hon-i our of having postponed the evil day by appeasing
Marshal Clement E. Vorshiloff, Hitler. When he returned an intimate friend of Joseph Sta- Iin for the past 20 years, and for from Munich, he expected 15 years Commissar for Defence, has lost neither his popularity nor a riot to develop round importance after being replaced
by the energetic Ukrainian, Sem him as a protest against you Timoshenko, as head of the the betrayal of Czechoslo- vakia. Instead, he was received with plaudits and Press, flowers. But he was not Politburo
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joined its Bolshevik wing headed Stalin alone in popularity and in- by Nikolay Lenin.
fluence, but the period of whole- In 1905, he again landed in sale arrests brought new men to gaol for having organised strikes the foreground. in Lugansk 10} the Donbas, but! Actually he never lost his share next year he was present us de-in de ermining Russia's course - legate at the Bolshevik Congress privilege to the 11 members in Stockholm where he met Lenin the all powerful political bureau
for the first time.
congress
ut
deceived by that ovation.any, and the official announce not to visit foreign countries. One tion.
ment of his appointment to Vice- Premier, made at the last session of the Supreme Council, was met with an ovation second only to that accorded to Joseph Stalin.
of
of the Communist Party, headed The "First Marshal of the U.S.S. Ras M. Voroshilol
A year later, in 1907, he parfi. by Stalin. is usually cipated in another
It is popularly believed umong referred to by the Soviet Bolsheviks, this time in London, the Russians that Kaganovitch has remained a mem- That was Voroshiloff's last trip | shares with Andre W. A. Zhdan-
the
all-powerful abroad. There is an unwritten rule off the distinction of pinch-hitting of the Communist that members of the Politburo are for Stalin when he goes on vaca-
of the few exceptions is the pre- Appointed Vice Premier of The lesson of Munich for
sent Commissar for Foreign Trade. U.S.S.R. in August, 1938, Kagano- Anustas Mikoyun, who visited the vitch retained his post as Com- him was that France must
United States in 1936.
missar for Railways, a job he has equip herself efficiently to
Voroshiloff was arrested
held since 1935 with a brief inter- M. Voroshiloff, furthermore, after his return
to Russia from ruption in 1937, Kagunovitch then face German aggression.
was given the post of Chairman of the London congress, and exiled to
was relieved of his duties as Com- the Defence Committee of the Rus- Archangel,
to missar for Railways in order He managed to es- But M.
sian Cabinet thus being entrusted
settled
head the Commissariat for Heavy cape, however, and
in Daladier left with the herculean task of co-or- Baku, where he met
But his successor soon Stalin and Industry. many things undone. In-sariats dealing with
dinating the work of all commis- worked with him in the locul made such a confusion of Russia's defence, in-underground Communist organi- transport that Kaganovitch had to decision
of production was his chief cluding the
be recalled to undo the damage,
fault. He has admitted that one great mistake he
materials.
Finnish Revelation
war
sation.
Returned To Exile
Soon
Aids Keeping Of Pact
In 1908, he was arrested once In the spring of 1938 he again, The drastic reorganisation of more and sent back to his place was charged with the task of made was not to have in- the Red Army and Navy which of exile, where he remained until insuring timely delivery of raw sisted on continuing
the has been going on ever since M. the outbreak of the World War. materials to industrial plants and
Vuroshiloff was replaced by Mar-
During the war,
products Voroshiloff distribution of finished Maginot line to the sea at shal Timoshenko in May, 1940, worked in Petrograd and Tsarit- to Russia's innumerable cities and
tends to prove that the Russo-Fin sin. plants, organising workers for villages. any cost without troubl-nish war disclosed serious gaps in
revolution. He participated in As Commissar for Rallways, ing about financial ortho-|the Red Army, and
the organisation and discipline of
the October revolution in 1917 Kaganovitch also has been in that Stalin] which brought the Bolsheviks to charge of transporting troops, am- and other Soviet leaders have doxy. He ought also to found it deficient in the light of Power, and worked with Dzerz-munition and provisions to the hinsky in the dreaded Cheka, but new, extended frontiers of the have gone on buying more the strategy and tactics employed later was sent to fight the White Soviet Union.
by the Germans in
iet armed forces.
Western
of the
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dismissed by M. Reynaud. ing point in the history of the Red
Army. It includes such sweep- events in Voroshiloff's military oil, an equal amount of barley,
Guard armies in the Ukraine. and more aeroplanes and Europe.
A special task with which Kaga. This launched his military car. getting more and more for the deficiencies in the struc in the Soviet-Polish War in 1920, erials under the
Instead of being called to task cer which included participation novitch is entrusted is delivery to Germany of supplies of raw mate terms of the munitions made for ture and discipline
Red and in the rout of Denikin's arm- Soviet-German trade agreement.. Army, Vuroshiloff is believed to les. In March, 1920 Voroshlloff That this is no small task can France, and done it on his have been actually participating helped crush the rebellion of the be gauged from the fact that the own, responsibility. When in the reorganisation of the Sov- Krondstadt sailors, and soon after- terms are generally believed
wards he was appoined chief of he made this confession
have called upon the Russians to been the North Caucasian Military Dis-provide the Third Reich during on June 5 last year, he was so thorough that it marks a turn-trict.
the first year of the agreement's One of the most important operation with 1,000,000 tons of A French journalist has ing changes as the abolition of career is his collaboration with 100,000 tons of raw cotton, pro
the intro- Stalin in the famous defence described Daladier as an political Commissars,
of bably as much grain, about 50,000- duction of ranks of generals and Tsaritism which Stalin undertook tons of manganese, and smaller upright and honest pat- admirals, obligatory salute, and, on the one condition that War quantities of iron ore, phosphates riot and statesman whose finally, demand for severest milit- Commissar Leon Trotzky, did not and other raw materials.
ary discipline, making officers interfere.
Most of these supplies have to will was paralysed by in- supreme authorities in the units, In 1925, Vordshiloff was ap-be transported by rail through the decision and mistrust of under their command.
pointed Commissar of Defence,, a 10 railway lines linking Russia and post he held: until May, 1940. Germany in what formerly was
Polish territory. Main Organiser Voroshiloff was born on Febr
Unofficial reports have it that many months. But in stead of a death sentence,uary 4, 1881, in the Donbas, coal the star of Lazare:M; Kagano- Moscow has not fulfilled some of
region, a son of a worker, and bevitch Russia's major organiser its obligations under the agree it may be his destiny some came a metal worker himself. As and trouble-shooter, is rising once ment The explanations given, do not attribute day to be among the rea youth he led a strike was dis- more as the Soviet Union is take however,
charged, blacklisted, and arrested build up its war potential.
ing advantage of its neutrality to this failure to Kaganovitch's inability to: transport the stored leaders of a liberat-
In 1908, he entered the Russian Until the purge of 1030-1938, goods, but rather to other reasons ed France.
Social-Democratic Party und Kaganovitch was second to Joseph of a political nature.
himself and others. He Metal Worker in Youth has been awaiting trial for
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