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ing to read, an advertisement from the Cunard Steamship line (borrowed from the rack on the Empress of Canada the other night) which says the possibility [of war gets; remoter every day. and quotes comforting authority to prove it. Ambassador Ken- nedy, Herbert Hoover, Lord Beaverbrook, Lord Rothermere, and ten other smiling gentlemen POLICE IN INDUSTRY say there will be no war. But ather news comes up from Lon- don. We wonder about the state Mr. Demaree Bess, well-known in the Far East, who arrived reman who pays twenty-seven and *** of mind of the average English- cently in Geneva after a long stay. in Russia, gives an interesting the government, and knows that a half per cent. of his income to picture of conditions in the So- viet Union in the course of a at least one third of it will go to buy guns, and ships and planes. comment on two of the most striking recent trends in the he learns that he has bought and We wonder what he thinks when country, illustrated by the ap
last
pointment of Nikolai Yezhov, di-stored up enough food to minutive chief of Moscow's fe-through the first ugly days of a deral police, as conjointly direc-siege, or when he is urged to tor of the entire Soviet merchant bombproof his house at a cost of fleet, all the ships which havi £12 a room. The gas masks, of gate not only Russia's great the coat room shelf. It is hard course, are already lined up on rivers and lakes but also foreign waters. First, this appointment remodelled and presumably dis- to believe that a man who has practically completes the federal figured his house to safeguard, police force's absolute control himself against gas and bombs, over every possible point of con- and paid a staggering proportion tact between Russia and the out-of his income for armament and Bide world. Second, it carries' one food, will not be appalled some long step further the strongly where in his thrifty soul at all consolidated position of the fe-these things going to waste. It deral police in the Soviet state is hard to believe that he can sit owned industrial system.
Within the past year or two, the food rots, the chemicals dry indifferently while the guns rust, the federal police have become incomparably the most powerful caulking drops softly from the up in the gas masks, and the agency of the Soviet Government, ceiling of the bombproof room. infinitely more important than The economic urge is strong, but the Red Army or any other or there is a gan of coercion or supervision. Only a super-man
spiritual prod, too. The tremendous role assumed by finitely, full panoplied for war, can sit inde- Joseph Stalin's police lends co-without the small, disturbing. lour to the ironic comment that itch to start something.
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Moscow's particular brand of "planned economy" can be oper-
AFTER' the field is ploughed,
ated efficiently only under police then come the harrowing details. control.
NEWS clipping:
Thrifty Joseph Stalin be- latedly bet another blue chip on the Spanish Loyalists not long ago in the form of ten splendid Soviet warplanes. Tons of other Soviet war paraphernalia have reached the Leftists in the past month Via France. Amid wild cheering in recently bombed Barcelona, Soviet. war birds in mass formation
Mr. Yezhov's appointment fol- lowed a long series of reports in the Soviet press indicating that the merchant fleet was riddled with corruption and inefficiency. The Commissar for Water Trans- port, N. Pakhomov, a veteran Bolshevik, had been warned by official newspapers on several previous occasions that he must improve matters soon or "face the consequences." This has be-- come standard practice, in Rus- sia, where it is still believed, des- pite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that executives cân be frightened into efficiency. When newspapers recently an- nounced that wreckers' had |been · discovered in this commis- sariat, Pakhomov's arrest was assumed as a matter of course. Failure, under recent Soviet prac tice, has become a crime subject in extreme cases even to capital the “th
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