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...mysterious man in the world. What he believes and what he is planning to do are immensely urgent questions for everybody in every country. Especially for Americans. Last week the cloud of mystery around Stalin was penetrated. Foreign Affairs published in its January issue a 40-page article by "Historicus," entitled Stalin on Revolution. The article* contained few facts that were new. Yet it was big news. For it pulled together the whole kit & caboodle of Stalin's essential beliefs, the beliefs on which he bases his decisions. It was the first time that this had been done...
...Historicus does not deny Stalin's arrant opportunism. What he shows is that Stalin and the world Communist Party guide their main course on the basis of a hard core of theory, and have done so for 25 years with "amazing consistency." Around the hard core of theory is a hard layer of what Stalin calls program. Around this is a layer of strategy, then an outer husk of tactics...
...understanding Stalin is right here, says Historicus: the tactics always, the strategy often, are expendable and replaceable; these are the party-line flipflops that make the headlines, but they do not change the core of theory and program. To understand the manipulable strategy and tactics, Stalin's followers - and his intended victims - have to understand the inner theory and program. Historicus puts his heaviest stress on Stalin's use of fixed theory right along with and intermeshed with shifting tactics. Stalin employs both, simultaneously. Most politicians of the West tend to bear down on one or the other...
...long lost son of the witch, and disguises himself in one of Mistress Charitie's dresses with which Happie chances to be passing. The buccaneer now retires, after which Hazelle and Richarde enter and sing a duet about a scare-crow. Richarde now goes in search of Historicus, but returns with him just after the departure of Hazelle. Portentous has some trouble with the school-children who rebel and depart with Richarde and Historicus. Upon this, Portentous arrests Hazelle as a witch, but she escapes and the pirate is imprisoned by accident...