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...Dictator, who has been from 1930 onward a merciless exterminator of Russia's more prosperous peasants or kulaks, is now ready, announced Comrade Yakovlev, to readmit "repentant kulaks" to cultivation of Russia's farm lands. Since Stalin has exiled some 1,000,000 kulaks to Siberia, where many have died, Russia can now count on the return of the remainder in the guise of "repentant kulaks" to her most fertile lands. Originally these folk were the Soviet Union's most able soil tillers. "These former class enemies," cried Comrade Yakovlev last week, "will now receive lenient treatment...
...Merciless Fight." On Moscow's coldest day so far this winter, with thermometers down to 15° below zero. Russians turned out by the ten thousands before 10 a. m. to stand pack-jammed in the snow, stamping their feet as they waited for the funeral at 1 p. m. in the five-acre Red Square...
...Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...
...There can be no holier task than merciless punishment!" clarioned the Party newsorgan Izvestia, lapsing by a slip into pious language. All Soviet papers emphasized that as soon as Dear Friend Sergei's ashes were in their niche, Dictator Stalin mounted Lenin's Tomb beside the Kremlin wall, funeral music changed to the bray of military bands, and crack detachments of the Red Army and Gay-pay-oo troops swung past at the double while 64 airplanes filled the sky, approximately one for every Russian executed...
After setting forth certain pertinent facts, Mr. Beard ventured into the realm of opinion, which he defined as "a valued judgment to be tested by the merciless court of history that is to be made." "A nation," he said, "is a collection of people capable of self-government and cooperative enterprise in the national geographical theatre. It is not in the national interest to bring into the United States races that cannot fit into the pattern of national life and cooperate in discharging the necessary economic obligations. There is no advantage economic or otherwise by the sale of American goods...