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SECOND INSTALMENT OF A BRILLIANT CHARACTER OF THE SOVIET

NEW YORK CABLE-LETTER

'Bomb' Upsets All Plans

BY FREDERICK COOK

7E have just come through our first theoretical "atom bomb raid." It is as well that it was only theory. If It had been real this letter would never have been written.

An imaginary bomb fell smack in the middle. of Manhattan. In theory overything witli a 10-. mile radius was wiped out.

There were plans for emergency first aid fre nearby New Jersey, airplanes, to fly out survivors, communications system to handle "incident": reports.

This rescue airplanes, due to start work: st dawn, showed up-mostly In the wrong places at 3.30 pm. The telephone operators could not het through

Cadets who were to have handled wountied clilzens alted for two hours and then went home, Olelal report on the test: "Not what we had hoped.??.-

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IN SI. Louis, Missouri, town where. Mr Truman got bis start in politics, there is a new pillar-box, deico on the kerbstone outside a bank where a depositor, without getting out of his car, can pay money into als account...

Bank clerk in an under-the-pavement vault gan: see the customer through a perlscope and talk with him over a two-way loud-speaker system,

STUDY

DICTATOR BY A NOTED - BIOGRAPHER

THE REAL STALIN

URELY Stalin is the only

field marshal who never ware 2 uniform before

his fortieth year. The prisoner's

garb is not a uniform.

By EMIL LUDWIG

On the other hand, Stalin money was to be taken to the became familiar with the use state bank in a wagon escorted of weapons very early in his by cossacks, At 2.30, 5.15.

with life-at first, of course, the revolver he carried us u 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. precaution

against the police, and then with the hunting rifle which he used in Siberia to get himself better food.

MAUREEN O'HARA JOHN PAYNE

Hist

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mily

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America's most ♫ beautiful and lenst novular Jail, be closed. Standing in a flower-strewn stund in San Fran- cisco Bay, it is now proving too expensive. Convicts hale to по there even more thru to most prisons-because nobody has over escaped from Alcatraz.

MAIN

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RAIN sim of this country's trade Congress

inions in the now will be to get the closed shop re- established.. This was banned by .the Tall-Hurtley Act, - pushed

through while the Congress Republican-dominated.

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was

His quick-moving spielt irritated CHRINKAGE in the value of the the bulk of his compatriota

more

dollar has been dramatically vexed than it may have

New Lenin huih-lighted at Bridgeport. who, though he had none of Stalin's Jersey, where the city council have heaviness. had neither

dropped ait small change from pay envelopes.

10. Trotsky's lightness.

A man entitled But surely no single man in £8.168. Cd. At fature will get £0.

"What can you do with a hand- Russin could stand Trotsky less than the sombre Stalin, who did not cease ful of change nowncrys asked a dollar either to begrudge his rival the fortunate city official, "or with Leon Trotsky-one of the most circumstances of his youth and his for that matter?"

Some people, however, continue It was noon time when the brillant men

I've ever mel-hud lasting good luck,

Already in those days he must to save. There has been a spurt in the almost everything attacked

have dreamed of removing Trotsky sales of the "little mun's savings And vice versa. conspirators

from the scene. It took him twenty- bands." For six months now soles They vehicle in the middle of the city's thoroughfare. Shooting As a speaker and writer Trotsky three years to make that dream, a have exceeded redemption.

will be more than £1,000,000,000 and throwing bombs, they had abilities which even Lenin lack- reality,

The odd thing about the duel of this year. ed. That is the reason why Lenin killed, besides some onlookers, made him his closest collaborator these two men is that both, without ever having been soldiers, becamnu In the face of the mounting the whole escort together with the very moment they arrived in

army lenders overnight. terror regime which followed the horses-then grabbed the St. Petersburg. revolution of money bags and disappeared. 1905-when the prisons were overflowing with, political con- victs the revolutionaries re- sorted to terror themselves, ATER one of them was caught for L some other crime, and became so True, their representatives had entered the parliament either as Socialists or as Bol- sheviks. But they also con- tinued their illegal work, and even committed robberies.

the abortive

They regarded robbing the Imperial Treasury as a moral action.

The most famous of those hold-ups took place in 1907 in Tiflis, and was talked about throughout the civilised world.

·THE RINGLEADER

THE ringleader in that in

stance was Stalin, as is well known today to every school boy in Russia, though the story has never got into print.

I would have loved to get the story from Stalin himself, But when I asked him whether there was any truth to

that

IN EXILE

HISTORICAL FACT

TT is an historical fact that they

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R. Morris Kolodney, of the Oak Ridge atom power laboratorios, Ormly believes that airplanes, not sbips or railway engines, will be the first machines driven by nuclear" energy. A testb airplane will be built within five years, he predicte

None of the other Soviet leaders I came to know-Zinoviev, Radek, Bukhorin-could compare with Trotsky's genius. His birth into well-to-do family had offered him the leisure to familiarise himself with the culture of the west and its languages; life had given him every noble-brigand thing it had denied to his contem- from the record on Stalin's orders,] A still losing sales here to the

the popular-in fashion of the romantic opera-that the authorities kept postponing his untit The revolution execution

liberated him..

It is clear that 17 man who associated with such people-and Stalin did so not only in that one exploit, but throughout that stormy period of hirteen years-could not

share our views about morals and human life.

And it also can be imagined how greatly relieved men of Stalin's kind must have felt when the first world war broke out. They discerned as its ultimate result the rise of the Great Revolution, whether Russia would be among the victors, or not.

porary. Stalin.

Trosity was like R speeding motor car. Stalin reminded me of a slow-moving tractor leaving deep ruis. Two such men were bound to hate each other,

LUST FOR Vengeance

not

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both discharged their military and will be flying within sovan duties brilliantly-though nowadays, with all of Trotsky's merits stricken

Russian children learn the contrary about Trotsky.

MERICAN motor manufacturers,.

British baby car, are going after one of Britain's markets with a In the first two years of his army baby car of their own. carcer Stalin was in command now

General Motors, who have started in the Ukraine, now in the Donetz production of their brand-new 40- Basin, and then again in the Stimpy Holden in Australis.

talk of Petersburg replon

introducing=ition=the:US-market- eventually.

CECRET tests have been carried out In Pennsylvania of a nove mining machine which is supposed to enable one man, to cút, up to 100 tons of coal a day. (Average pro- duction of U.S. miners, six tons a day: British 1.14 tons).

Meanwhile, Trotsky, in the Orst armoured car to be used in history, was travelling around the country as the de facto generalissimo.

They were bound to clash, Twice the fate of both Stalin and Russia was decided in Stalingrad (which

called

formerly was

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one realises the distrust already present in the fourteen-year-old student Stalin, and thinks of his youth spent in the shadow, dimcult to visualise the growth of thai distrust in the heavy, taciturn man and Its gradual change into the Tsaritsyn): in 1910, and uguin in

* ** lust for venicance which was to 1919, Stalia, in command of the Imbue his whole being.

most important sector of the "wheat "Federation of Women Share- But white such men as Lamin and If

.holders" is planned here to onu adds to that pleture front" during the Civil War of 1918,

who. Trotsky who lived abroad as well as his Astatic heritage, and

somu organise the 8,000,000 women com- had become infuriated about

Invested in ในแบ that some of the leaders at home could pares

mah.

with Lenin, of Trotsky's orders. offspring of patricians work on undermining the murale of the the Czarist Army, Stalin was in the

and the

"unbla hand. exile, for the sixth time in his life. brilliant and haventive Trotsky an In 1013 he was sent to an Arctic the other, one can bnaging Stalin's humlet consisting of three cottages feelings when he sat in the

first

and surrounded by the tundra which remained frozen for nine months of

the year.

Ile lived there without commdes old story, he remained silent: or women, without wine or music. in fact, that was the only ques tion he failed to answer during my interview.

Instead, he got up, and walk. ed over to a desk in his heavy galt to pick up. a pamphlet which he gave to me and said, "Here you'll find everything about me." Then he laughed; it was a sly, diabolic laugh.

What happened in 1907, in.. Tillis was this:

without any newspapers. He spent his time reading, chopping wood. knitting nets, and fishing in holes he would drill in the fee.

KEPT HOPING

OR three years the only news the received about the war, was art occasional note from Lenin and others smuggled. to him ever thou Rands of miles by asilors.

But he kept hoping.

Only shortly before the outbreak of the revolution of 1917 did Stalin

one

on

alert,

LENIN'S KNOWLEDGE

"Council of the Seven without be- IT seems that he was right in his technical judgment, and Trotsky ing able to influence its decisions.

began was wrong.

One can imagine how he

to hate some of his comrades-but

capturing the melight by his above all Trotsky, who was already

peotiations for n

separate

with the Kaiser's Germany.

At any rate this le the wire he sent to Lenin:

you

"Believe me. comrade, that DO efforts are spared here to get

wheat. peace the much-needed.

milliary experts, those blockheads, and had not been caught napping, the ould not have broken

money

Walli

women to

Street.

Inden is to use their economic franchise to ime prove the status of women,"

If works, this may become a potent new force in American ilte. for the American woman is wealthy individual.

is esti She maled to control 80 percent of the country's, privately-held money.

IN

If our CHOPKEEPERS are wishing that women with толсу would show more readiness to spend some of it, now that Chrisimas is coming. Sales are still in the doldruma. Un- usually warm weather, high prices, the and the

theso clection-all

blamed.

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After Afteen years of work hardship Stalin again found himself enemy being used in the routine machinery through......as it is, my work on of the party, he was highly esteemed the southern front becomes useless Lenin, the leader, but still and criminal. Which gives me by

right and even makes it my duty to Trotsky It was Leon:

who oro to the devil rather than stay on. unknown to the world.

the.Stalln" "ganised the Red Army, when

with At the same time Lenin got White. Russians,, together

TIGH on the list of friends of

forelan

Britain here ́nów ought to bo financiers, and Interven, legram from Trotsky: "Insist on IT

tire name of Douglas Fairbanks, tionists, opened their counter drive Stalin's removal,

Only Lenin's shrewd knowledge of Jun. Just back from London. Fair. against the revolution..

Stolin, e had me made a

co-operation of these hanks is speaking up and down the Although, like

possible. After Lenin's cou never worn a uniform, Trotsky also two men

ment Dritain is showing, not but pursue its course.

"Difference between England and Intervention nnit the Civil War.

fame. He was He gained world

the Continent Is like the differenca |between night and day," he is tell the first man ever to broadcast

Ling America.. pronunciamento "to all men."

Stalin and his friends knew succeed in escoping, and joining his led that army in both the War of denils Stalin's vengeful unture could country about the steady Improve-

that the post office was ex- friends.in St. Petersburg. pecting a shipment of a quarter

At '2.30, 5.20.

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Stalin was in his late thirties of a million of ruble notes when he got his first command. But there still, were at least two men from

The St Petersburg.

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