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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1948.

YÖLSTMINSTER, THEATER

DALTON

VISTERN

IF THEY WONT LET ME PLAY HAMLET

I CAN AT LEAST STEAL "THE" SHOW AS THE GHOST

"

World Coppright. De arranatinent with 'Avening Standard.

THE REAL STALIN

By EMIL LUDWIG

wanted to erase. Thus he

Stalin unsealed Lenin's will before could

for the whole committee, including make his own arrangements

meanwhile had re every impending political crisis, or Trotsky, who

decision.

T the end of the civil war, in 1922, Lenin ⚫had a breakdown, and from then on he only

ad- gave his. vice, but no longer was ruling the country.

That his ten or twelve top collaborators were spared similar breakdowns after those trying years is remarkable.

Stalin owed his robust health to his mother.

When I last visited Russin, I saw the aged woman, still going strong, enter her modest house in Tiflis, a simple black shawl on her head. Her son, the most powerful on earth, could have given her any of the czar's castles.

Stalin survived Russia's turmoil in perfect health.

he

The fortress whose keys stalin held was the whole of Russia,

.

Together with Zinoviev and Kamenev he formed the "Troika," so called after the Russian sleigh drawn by three horses abreast. These two men, inferior to him intellectually, were loyally attached to his cause.

ASIATIC Nature ITHIN these two 'years of the "Interregnum," the Troika filled terally tens of thousands of party jobs with Itz benchmen, and its supreme master grew powerful than the

far more "Council of the

Nineteen" which then was ruling according to the consillution.

of

The crafty Asiatic nature Stalin, revented in his taciturnity, contrasted greatly with the openness or both Lenin and Trotsky.

Lenin had known how to under- stand and convince people. Stalin Fave orders.

turned..

Lenin had handed over his poli- tical testament to his wife, calling it a "useful" document. He had given no orders, but only offered his ad-. vice. Here is what he wrote:

"I think such people as Stalin and to bo fit as leaders of Trotsky the Central Committee. However, their personal relations contain the danger of the very rilt in our party which must be prevented.

am

"As Secretary General, Comrade Stalin has enormous power; I it with the called-for prudence. not sure whether he will always use

"Comrade Trotsky is an extraor- dinary man not only through his uncommon talents. Personally he is undoubtedly the most gifted mem- ber of the Central Committee.

"But his self-confidence is too great......If our party does

not prevent it, a split may well occur." SECOND TESTAMENT

was a second testament, BUT thereof postscript dictated by

.

The Empire Is Footing The Bill

∙DE

By DON TAYLOR.

ETAILS have now leaked out in Paris of the huge contribution which Britain and her. Colonies are expected to make towards the economic recovery of Western Europe, as part of the price we pay for. Marshall ald.

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Through the next four years our energies are to be bent on exploiting the raw material resources of the Colonial Empire on the grand -scale.

To help the colonial peoples? To improve the standard of living in Britain? Not at all..

The object primarily is to fit our economy with that of Western Europe, and put other countries on their feat,

Here are some typical increases of raw material production that we are expected' to achieve:--

Groundnuts: From 330,000 tons (1946) to 866,000 ton (1952).

Tin: From 27,000 tó 98,000 tona.

Copper: From 199,000 to 350,000 tons.

Bauxite: - From 1,230,000 1,019,000 tons.

BEHIND the enigmatic mask of

Josef Stalin's personality, there is a deeply ingrained

grudge and an almost fan- tical distrust of not only all

foreign nations but of his closest associates.

and othicz factors

Stalin aro revealed in this re- markable life story of the Soviet dictator by the dean of modern blographers, Emi! Ludwig,

e dog the behaviour of

The series started in the.. Telegraph Inst Friday. This is the third instalment.

Sugar: From 031,000 to 1,370,000 tons.

Lead: From 10,000 to 34,000 tons. I might seem at first sight that such a simulation of production is

a good thing. for the Colonial-Em-- pire. But these bre, the materials the, Colonies have producing for years.

INCREASED RISK.

raw beep

Despite the trogle lessons from the past of what happens to m- balanced colonial economies, they are to go on producing them.

The only difference is that there will be more of them; with a corres pondingly increased risk of economie. unbalanco.

There is no guarantee that the Europeni markola now to be supplied by the Colonica will do permanent.

Once short-term needs have been met, these dependent territorien of ours may well be left high and dry, forced to contemplate once again "restriction" schemes such as

have

we

known In the past in 'tin, copper, rubber, and a host of other primary commodities.

That is the danger we run.

TO BE PIGEON-HOLED.

Concentration on meeting short- term European and American neede means that the broad-based plans. for the Colonies, on which alone

lasting prosperity can be built, are to be pigeon-holed.

.

In order to deprive Trotsky of all he had the Soviet newspapers-which were entirely in influence,

For does Sir Stafford Cripps. his power-write against Trotsky, pretend that he can find the steel, and forbade all printing offices to the rolling stock, the rails, and all print Trotsky's articles and speeches: the other equipment for these vitally

a needed years For five

Stalin spent

permanent schemes, In of his energies goodly part

on addition to the material needed to destroying Trotsky's reputation; he expand present Industries to suit the bad thousands of posters put up, Marshall plan? talked himself over the radio, and had Trotsky's pletures removed everywhere.

Since Stalin did not want to have Trotsky, murdered in Russis, he tried his best to get him exiled by the Soviets. Dul with

All his efforts,

In those days one of the members

Stalin did not succeed before 1929. all that is

of the Soviet Council said:

In the midst of the civil wars, as a man of about forty, divorced his wife and married the seventeen-year-old daughter of a friend of his.

That's about known of his relationship with -women. He had a son, but didn't seem to have been very fond of him-(although re- cently this son has been getting a lot of publicity as a "hero" in the Soviet Air Corps).

Within the two years of the "Interregnum" when Lenin was still alive but ruling in name only Stalin gained the decisive victory of his life.

'It was neither a battle nor a revolution; it was the conquest of the Communist Party.

RECEIVED THE KEYS

HE

The British Parliament, as the saying has it, can do everything ex- woman cept change a man into a Out Central Committee has changed

many a brave man into a woman."

When Lenin diled in June, 1924, at the age of fifty-four, Trotsky hap pened to be in the south, recuperat- ing from an illness,

་ ་

NO ANTONY

Lenin to his wife ten days after the first one was written, and signed by himself. reliably reported by witnesses, it read:

As

"Stalin 18 foo ruthless, and this shortcoming of his, fairly bearable among us

becomes communists, unbearable in the office of the Secretary General,

"Therefore I suggest that way be found to remove Stalln from

Pigeon-holing long-term develop- ment plans will be a gross breach of falth with the Colonies. If there ore no voices in Britain to say so, they will not be wanung in the Colonies themselves.

Last year Britain imported £153 In vain one will search for a re-million worth of timber and forest world revolution in products, Much of It"was paid for. ference Lenin's juxtaposition of the two in hard currencies. rivals.

a

to

In fact, world revolution was only them. slogan with both of Basically, they both wished first of all for Russla's reconstruction.

MURDER IN MEXICO Eome

at the party congress one of that office, and replace him with Y

them would accuse the other of PERHAPS Stall remembered someone else who is totally unlike

world Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," Stalin: that is, more patient, more betraying

revolution and and the great influence which loyal, more polite to his comrades socialism (lu about the same terms in which nowadays socialists and Antony's eulogy had on the and less whimsical...........

communists level such accusations ni populace.

one another in many countrica).

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"In view of the split which must He managed to keep Trotsky away be prevented and the relation be- from Lenin's funeral by misinform- tween Stalin and Trotsky, this

It may onD ing him on its date, and to be him no secondary matter. Lean. self the man who buried the great day be of crucial importance....

Stalin managed to have the will withheld from the public, although Lenin's wife-he hated manded its publication...

È became Secretary General

of the party, and thus res: ceived, as it were, the keys to

Stalin was no Antony-his oration every room and every dungeon In the country, the power to was repetitive, without Imagination unlock them and close them and quite dull. But the hundreds of thousands of Russians who had again, like the turnkey of a flocked to the Red Square wero medieval fortress.

Eralded by the sight of this disciple. Lenin had

the and successor of their idol who, founded

standing in front of the coffin, de Soviet State, Trotsky the Red ivered the eulogy. Army, Stalin established the the Cheka, later on called OGPU the original model of the Gestapo.

Incidentally, the idea at that time was to keep the body-lying In stale only for some days for people who would arrive too late for the cere

mony,

her-de-

ON TROTSKY ASKED. Stalin about Trotsky, and vice versa. Probably I am the only, stranger over to rsk such a question in the Kremlin after Trotsky's banishment.

Stalin replied:

In open meeting they called each other llars and traitors. But Stalin had packed, the congress. First: he of got rid of the two other. horses the Troika. And then he got the congress to exile Trotsky.

As a man of nty Trotsky was sent, with his wife and his son, to the same part of Siberia whence he had escaped es a man of thirty..

But this time the man who banish ed Trotsky was not the czar, but Comrade Stalin.

Yet we have 015,000 square miles of forest in the Colonial Empire. It could produce all the timber and forest products Britain wants. - UNTAPPED TREASURE Why doesn't it? Lack of com

it wo munications. And

follow prevent policies, lack of communica- tons will still keep the wealth, of this great treasure-house of ours"un-. tapped.

Our present policy is injuring the Duminions equally with the Colonies. In British Columbia the timber industry, built to its present, size to help meet the needs of Britain, now faces a setbaric because: Britain can no longer take more than a fraction of is output.

Only the other day Mr Gardiner, Canada's Minister of Agriculture, told the farmors of that Dominion that they could no longer be assured: of a market in Britain for all they could produce.

Tlicta are undeniable "difcules: in the way of developing our E-

A year later, an ordinance banish-pire wealth. But imagination and Trotsky wielded great authority. ed Troisky from all Russian terri- faith would go a long way towards Yet he is forgotten today, When tory, ordering him to take up solving them. people still remember him on occa residence in Turkey,

But when the embalminent proved ness,

thousand miles Trotsky and

his

The Cheka was 'not a body-

sions, they do to only with uneast- After a twerity-day trip over four guard for Stalin's physical

to be better than expected, it was "Go and ask the workers yourself, family arrived at the shore of the protection in times of revolu- decided to perpetuate the sight-and and youll and that ninety percent Black Sea. The ship that took him tion. It was a body resembling thus Lenin's body, head and hunds of them will be bitter about abroad was the "Lenin." the czarist secret police, but yellow and waxen, is still to be seen Trotsky,"

Ten years later, in 1040, Trotsky consisting of men far more in the mausoleum built in the wall

He did not say one hundred per- was murdered in Mexics on Blalin's of the Kremlin. active and dangerous than the

The body was not yet removed.

Since Stalin know, that the meet- latter. 7

from the embalmer's workshop when ing of the Soviets (after Lenin's With the help of his Red police the Central Committee met in order death) would re-elect him anyway, Stalin could get rid of any man he, to decide on Lenin's miccesor: he offered his resignation.

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