Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia's childish duplicity in announcing its reasons for starting the war, is one plain strategic fact. The Baltic States, including Finland, are primarily buffers between the two big Baltic powers: Germany and Russia. Buffers can also be jump-off points for invasion, and in invading Finland, Joseph Stalin was clearly protecting himself against the friend he has never met, Adolf Hitler. At the same time, no matter what are her other commitments with Russia, Germany cannot look with equanimity on any move which upsets the buffers and the balance in the Baltic...
...millenniums and a quarter later, last week, Adolf Hitler's newspaper Völkischer Beobachter drew a fanciful parallel: Joseph Stalin with Alexander the Great. No two men could be less alike. Alexander loved gaud and baubles; Stalin likes big boots and old brown tunics. Vain Alexander refused to grow a beard on the specious grounds that it would afford a handle which an opponent in war might grasp; diffident Stalin wears huge mustachios to make himself look more inscrutable. Alexander was imaginative, athletic, quick as an ocelot; Stalin is practical, ponderous, deliberate as a bear. Only similarity: Diogenes...
...great American writer. . . . Havelock Ellis' "My Life" is an undistinguished chronicle of a distinguish life. . . Henry F. Pringle makes "The Life and Times of William Howard Taft" a far more appealing and interesting book than one's impressions of the Taft administration would make one suspect. . . . Boris Souvarine's "Stalin" is less a biography than an attack on the man who, in the author's opinion, has sold out the ideals of the Russian Revolution...
...November 30 a front-page Daily Worker feature read, Another Soviet clarion call for peace was made today by Joseph Stalin." The next day, December 1, the Worker's headline was, RED ARMY HURLS BACK INVADING FINNISH TROOPS, CROSSES BORDER, while the Times said, FINNS' CABINET RESIGNS AS SOVIET MOMBS CITIES; NEW GOVERNMENT EXPECTED TO SEEK A TRUCE; 200 ARE KILLED. The next day a feature headline in the Worker asked, "Why did the Times censor the facts on Finland...
...H.S.U. has excluded, or been scorned by, the far right, it has always included Communists. Russia's recent actions, and the Communist attitude toward Stalin--the "his country, right or wrong" attitude--have raised doubts about how far liberals and Communists can tread together the path toward a fuller democracy. A purge is not the way to quiet these doubts, for the Communists stand for certain progressive measures which belong in any liberal program. But the situation is hazy and formless. The H.S.U. contains on the one hand a tightly knit, unified Communist group; on the other hand a liberal...