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Stalin opened his letter with the same limping apologies that non-Marxist non-dictators resort to. "Dear Alexei, Maximovich!-A heap of excuses and a plea that you won't abuse me for my late (too late!) answer. Besides that, I was a bit sick. This, of course, cannot excuse me. But it explains...
...Have No Doubts." The revolution was only twelve years old, but it was already being gnawed by the political cancer that results when people fear to speak out. Stalin had a strong sense of the blighting effect. "We cannot do without self-criticism," he wrote. "We cannot, really, Alexei Maximovich. Without it [will come] immediate stagnation, rotting away of the apparatus, growth of bureaucratism, undermining of creative initiative in the working class...
Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. Pushkin had successfully directed the Red rape of Hungary; in 3½ years as Russian ambassador in Budapest he had discreetly masterminded many a Communist coup, including the trials of Cardinal Mindszenty and ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk. Last December he took over his duties in Germany. Last week U.S. officials in Germany were wondering if Pushkin's pogrom might be prelude to a new Russian plan to seize all Berlin...
That same day: Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff arrived in Washington by plane to take up his duties as Russian Ambassador; in the indignation over the Jap attack, the ruling of the President's coal arbitration board that all captive coalmine workers must join John Lewis' U.M.W. was lost in the shuffle. Day before, Frank Knox, in his annual report, rated the U.S. Navy "second to none...
Under these circumstances, such agreements as were in the making this week were within the limits of the politically expedient. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed to Russia's Ambassador Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and China's Foreign Minister T. V. Soong similar proposals for post-war economic collaboration* based on: 1) Article IV of the Atlantic Charter, providing for equal and free access to the world's raw materials; 2) Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreement with the United Kingdom, providing for repayment of Lend-Lease materials in such a way as "to promote...