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...these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
...Vassily reached his office about ten in the morning, left around five for lunch and a few minutes rest, then came back to his desk to stay until long after midnight. Such hours are part of the Bolshevik tradition . . . and pouches under the eyes have become almost a badge of party membership...
Meanwhile, self-criticism progressed in other fields. In Bolshevik a revealing article showed the statistical deceptions practiced by harassed managers to meet the stiff goals of the new Five-Year Plan. The Stalinogorsk Coal Trust had "never fulfilled its plan." But its figures for the last three days of July were inflated to make up the month's quota. A mine that never produced more than 150 tons of coal a day suddenly reported a 544-ton output...
...Bolshevik explained how: "On Aug. 1 Botertzev, chief bookkeeper, and Kisko, chief of the planning department, called officials together, said 'Savchenko, the trust manager, has confirmed your July output,' and then shoved at them a paper to sign in which the actual output was greatly falsified. Afraid to disobey their chiefs, chief engineer Bulkanov and chief bookkeeper Sopelkin signed the paper...
...last July. A few weeks later, Ce Soir briskly backtracked: "The story was politically unjust . . . offensive to [a] high personality [living] in deportation and forced residence. The necessary remonstrances have been sent to our correspondent. Our rule on Ce Soir is professional conscience . . . respect for the truth." This routine Bolshevik backflip meant merely that Ce Soir's editors had been "officially informed" of what they should have known all along: Tunisia's Communist Party, culled from 110,000 French and 95,000 Italian residents, had rekindled among 2,300,000 Moslems and Bedouins the fires of independence fanned...