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absolute discretion and reliabi- lity.

Among the Soviet high-ups at the party was Marahal Soko-

lovsky. He was

quiet and sub- dued, and did not seem to be enjoying him- self very much, my informant

tells me. (Yes,

IN AND OUT OF PARLIAMENT

BY ERNEST THURTLE, M.P.

TOME SECRETARY EDE. since the day when Parliament, against the wishes, of the Government, voted to suspend the death sentence for murder, has reprieved overy convicted mur- derer.

Now that the law remains exactly as it wasTMTM before this vote, and that there is no prospect of any change for at least a considerábla time, Mr Ede's attitude towards the carrying out of future capital sentences will be watched with interest.

Will he continue to reprieve all the con- victed, or will he, in certain cases, allow the Inw to take its course?

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IT is possible he will follow the line indicated in the compromise proposal submitted by the Government, but rejected by the Lords, that is, allow the death penalty to stand for murdors of certain specified types.

and stresses

SEFTON DELMER begins the second day

at

secret

of his inquiry with a glimpse of a party held the Soviet Embassy in London. One incident there crystallises his theme-

the within

Commu- the personal tensions

the atomic bomb. nist oligarchy, notably on

J

The Kremlin

disagrees on

the Atom Bomb

you have guessed right: they

He is, I am sure, too much of a realist to indulge in hopes that no Cages of the kind will come before him for decision while the law remains as it is.

VER

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There would have been even more wholehearted collaboration had Hit-

TERBAL

even brickcunts,

from ler not been Hitler. Instead of

candid friends are apt to hurt, trying to win the friendship and and I fear the Trades Union Congress support of the Russians by founding

an anti-Communist Russian regime, at Margate will produce a few of

annexed the captured territory theso for the Government. and declared it to be a German colony. Many disillusioned colla- Apart from such subjects an the boralors turned and fought as parti-control of prices and profits, and the sans against Hitler.

freezing of wages upon which many resolutions are down for discussion, the question of the administration of nationalised industries will be very much to the fore.

But the fundamental antagoniam to the regime that drove millions of Russians Into the cold, calculating embrice of Hitler still exists,

Are there personal conflets in the Kremlin, hier rchy? Certainly: The Kremlin men would be superhuman if there were not

You would get a chart looking like | that for the Oxford bumping races If you were to follow, year by year, the ups and downs in the Politburo.

It is a plain fact that there is much disappointment among the workers in these industries at the way in which the change over from private ownership has worked out.

This is likely to And shup - pression on the conference floor.

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MILING Arthur Moyle, Labour

Secretary to the

SM.P. for Stourbridge, is Parlia

This year, Zdhonov, the fanaticat now broom of the party, has bump-mentary Private ed the secret police chief and gone Prime Minister. up from No. 4 and No. 3.

The post is important, if unofficial, Now, on the whole, civilian who know ussure me there is no

Zdhanov, backed by Malinkov and and be is undoubtedly the right man to Vosndsenky, pushes the "let us get for the job. did slip up on those invitations Delmer is inclined to agree with mere rubber-stamping defence

Stalin, but a real debate of the

on with Communisation, cost what

The holder of such an appointment about conflicting points of view the deci- it may policy. He is also the arch- civilian Vishinsky after all!)

After dinner ono of the generals, in politics. I think we ston is made, and that decision is priest of the witch-hunt for Wes- is his Minister's Man Friday, politi-

And he is the head of cally speaking. younger Slav diplomats got ourselves might have done a bit binding on all, from the dissentient ternisers. hold of Sokolovsky and started better in Berlin, with diplomats, members of the Politburo down. to ply him with questions about in charge instead of generals. his strategy and tactics in the But that is not why I have war. The marshal woke up and, told you this story. as soldiers will, became quite

enthusiastic in fighting his I have told it because I believe in battles over again before an that this little incident obviously hero -

worshipping Kensington Palace Gardens illus listener..

trates the Soviet system of rigid political discipline, which is both a source of strength and a potential source of weakness in the future.

‘Only a soldier'

Stalin does not need to worry whether public opinion will accept his decision. However unpalatable it may be, the half-million security troops, the political police and the party will see that no one fails to keep step,

the War Party.

He pooh-poohr the danger of the alom bomb to Russia, and the ubliity

He gets no pay (though he is en- Hiled to entertain a lively expecta- ton of favours to come), but he does get to know some important secrets, and therefore needs to be the

of the Americans to penetrate soul of discretion. Russian defences and drop it where it would really hurt. He holds that Western muscle-flexing and talk of war is all bluff. the

Moreover, since he is a barrier That certainly gives Stalin a great

the Prime Minister and between advantage over his rivals in

members who are Immortuning for Interviews and, possibly, favours of West-whom he himself is free to hamper by agitating-public opinion-Against-him-are the elder-states-one-kind-or another, the Premier's. men Kaganovich and Mikoyan, who Parliamentary Secretary needs to be have advised D'slower and more cautious line, both in the Cominform and in the attack on the West.

against the m,

There are, however, grave die advantages to this compulsory con- formism.

It stifles initiative, makes experts mislead the Kremlin with reports "cooked" to suit the high-ups.

The fate of Soviet Russla's num-

If Stalin died

ONE or two other Slavs joined

Politician Vishinsky has soldier the group. The marshal was Sokolovsky tamed. He has got him clearly enjoying himself. Vishin- so tamed that Sokolovsky and his sky, who was in another corner soldier comrades do not dare even of the room, several times to think of using the power of their glanced across, over his shoul. name with the public or their par- ber one economist, Eugene Varga, o far Stalin, who

conal following with the army. is a good example of what happens der, at the marshal's little There was no pleasure party. in his stare. Then he moved pcross to them.

"That's not quite right," he

But although the marshals are as tame as performing poodles, the politicians still treat them with sus picion on Vishinsky showed Soko- lovsky in London.

said severely, interrupting Soko Cooked' reports

lovsky in the middle of what

he was saying. Without another

a good deal of a diplomat.

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MOYLE (ls the bill. I record

Mills us that in his early days

he did some bricklaying, and after- holds the wards became a trade union official. balance, has inclined in favour of to an expert whose ideas do not Zdhanov. But events in Berlin may

Perhaps it was the Infter - conform.

bring a change any time, And

nerience which enabled him to nequire Zdhanov may find himself going the diplomat's discretion and suavity, but I am inclined to think he was born that way.

But don't count in these personal conflicts and ambitions blowing up into a political explosion capable of shaking the regime. While Stalin is

absolute,

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ERLIN riots are a bad sign. Only

word Sokolovsky, crestfallen. THEY have surrounded them with merged with another and he him- there discipline in the Politburo is simpletons will believe theso to

self

sent

be, spontaneous manifestations of

In a treatise on the "economic development of capitalist countries down a few places. during the war," he suggested that the economic crisis in the West and the collapse of capitalism might not be so close at hand as believed in the Kremlin.

He lost his job. His office was

into the wilderness. The sples, political commissara, and

most dangerous aspect of all walked away. addressed the others: "You

and paganda witch-hunt of pro-Western drives opposition

criticism it. The atom bomb and Stalin's shouldn't pay any attention to traitors has prepared the ground for underground, where even the NKVD death,

them difficult to deal with, that stuff. He's only a soldier." a new purge to be launched any

If

time.

Stalin were involved in a long

war he might find thla most troublesome,

The struggle for the succession And, indeed, I know of admirals During the last war Soviet Russia might bring about an internal con- to that between and air-marshal who have alrendy produced the largest army of colta- let comparable been "sent to a rest camp" because borators and quislings of any of the Stalin and Lenin. they were guilty of "Westernising.". Allied countries. Not only

They had shown too much de- Baltic States, but also Ukrainians Thla conflict may coinelde with a the German iroops as period of East-West tension like the The Soviet Union," he said, ference for Western technical ac- received "ia the only country which has arme.

complishments in their respective liberatorz put its generals where they belong in the barracks. Just discipline has advantages. It ensures

Now without a doubt this Soviet The new broom prised on the evidence of present look at the Americans-pah.. complete unity of action. they make me sick! They have Once Stalle and the 14 oligarchs DUSSIAN soldiers volunteered for # general as their Foreign of Politburo have thoroughly the German Army. Many thou-

talked Minister. They have even sent.

over a subject and those sands more went to work in the party.

German factorles. They worked us a general as their ambassa-

willingly. Production went up—as dor." He anorted with con

* Admirala Kuzentrow and Galler, the statistics found at the Siemens- tempt.

Air-Marshal Novikov.

Hajsko works show.

Then Vishinsky political advisers. A nationwide pra- Is that this compulsory discipline Two things, however, could shake popular German feeling

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They are obviously part of Soviet oressure tactics against the Western Powers. Inspired by the Kremlin they would stop at once if Inspiration from that quarter ceased.

Some time ago Mr Bevin said of the civil war in Greece: "If a little finger were lifted it would stop." We all knew which to finger he mean!. It was to be found in It it does I shall not be sur- Moscow..

iendencies-to see one side espous- ing understanding with the West,

And that will not be Zdhanov's

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And what was true of Greece is true of Berlin today. The puppets dance there because the strings are pulled

in Moscow.

With these things happening we clearly have no ground for optimism. the protracted East-

• Editor's Note: This article was concerning written just before Zdhanov's death. West crisis.

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