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Molotov's classmates, a wealthy liberal, put up 100,000 rubles to found a revolutionary journal to be called Pravda (Truth). Molotov was appointed secretary; his editor was a mustachioed Georgian, eleven years his senior, named Joseph Djugashvili (alias Stalin). The two pledged "eternal alliance," and Stalin took room and board with Vyacheslav's widowed aunt...
London's Notting Hill is a down-at-heels section of shabby streets and seedy tenements close by fashionable Kensington. In one of its dead-end streets sits a mouldering Georgian house that holds a distinction all its own. Three years ago No. 10 Rillington Place became known as "The Murder House." Beryl Evans and her 14-month-old daughter were cruelly strangled there; her husband, Tim Evans, went to the gallows for the crime. Last week, with a decisiveness that sent shivers of fascinated horror down the spine of London, No. 10 Rillington Place renewed its lease...
...young (33) terrorist visited Cracow, where Lenin, in exile, trying to build up a group of hard-core professional revolutionaries inside Russia, was delighted with him, wrote to Maxim Gorky about his "wonderful Georgian." In Vienna he met Trotsky, who paused to note "the glint of animosity" in "Stalin's yellow eyes." Stalin wrote in Pravda (which he had helped to found): "Trotsky's childish plan for the merging of the unmergeable [Bolsheviks and Mensheviks] has proved him ... a common, noisy champion with faked muscles." In St. Petersburg in 1913, police got wind of Stalin's presence...
Among the Socialist intellectuals of her home town, the swarthy, shock-haired Georgian added nothing to the brilliant debates in which such men as Lunacharsky, Commissar of Education, the historian Pokrovsky, and Ryazanov, biographer of Marx, took part. His harsh Georgian accent put him at a disadvantage in public speechmaking. Someone asked: "Who is Stalin?" Snapped Trotsky: "The most eminent mediocrity in the Party." But Stalin worked purposefully in committees. His Nationalities Commissariat, which had begun with a bare table in a bare room, numbered hundreds of "experts" and his control extended over 65 million of Russia...
Pastor Wimbish, 37, a hustling Georgian, supervises a New York staff of 23 and keeps in touch with the 23 foreign and domestic missionaries the church supports in full. His popular Sunday sermons are still cut to the measure which Pastor Straton laid down when he began his broadcasts 30 years ago. "The people will not get any doubts or negations or question marks from the Calvary pulpit," Straton promised. "I shall try to continue to do my part, as the Bible expresses it, in tearing down the strongholds of Satan...