Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bombshell Sirs: The Nazi-Communist non-aggression pact [TIME, Aug. 28] did not surprise me. It was not "startling," it was no "bombshell." The reason: TIME has several times in months gone by suggested the possibility of Hitler's coming to terms with Stalin. Chamberlain should read TIME. He would not be so easily shocked. . . . CHESTER WARREN QUIMBY Saxton...
...Russia . . . devoured by vermin, racked by pestilence, deprived of hope?" Russia Winston Churchill saw as not only "a wounded Russia, but a poisoned Russia, an infected Russia, a plague-bearing Russia, a Russia of armed hordes . . . and political doctrines which destroyed the health and soul of nations." Of Stalin's purge he wrote: "For all its horrors, a glittering light plays over the scenes and actors of the French Revolution. . . . But the Russian Bolsheviks are not redeemed in interest even by the magnitude of their crimes. . . . They have emerged from the prison cells of the Cheka to make their...
Said the New York Daily Worker: "The people of Poland . . . realize the firm position of the Soviet Union in uncompromising pendence." support for (The their London freedom Daily and inde Worker used the same argument, even the same language, in praising Stalin's "uncompromising firmness" with Hitler.) The New Masses ran a series of parallel columns contrasting life in the Soviet Union with life in Nazi Germany...
Cartoonists showed more humor than their editorial colleagues. Most of them jeered at the Russo-German rapprochement, refused to get excited about war. The Philadelphia Record's Jerry Doyle produced a sketch of a swastika-shaped Stalin clutching hammer and sickle, with the caption: "Forward Marx!" and the Manchester Guardian got some fun of its own out of Das Schwarze Korps' cartoon poking fun at the staff talks in Moscow (see cut). Prepared all summer for this European crisis, the press was not caught napping as it had been in 1914. For six weeks...
Three months ago the Communist New Masses gleefully revealed that one Walter G. Krivitzky, exiled Russian general who was publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post, was really one Shmelka Ginsberg (TIME, May 22). In April General Krivitzky had claimed that Stalin was trying to team up with Hitler, and the New Masses took a lot of trouble to discredit him. Last week, while the Communist press was stammering explanations of the Russo-German treaty (see above), the Post bought nearly a full page in Manhattan, Philadelphia and Chicago papers to boast that it had predicted just...