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Chronicle (Levin), 15 December 1949, Page 5

LONDbN, Dee. 13. British Communists are making a very modest eontribution to the stream of presents v^hieh. are -"being sent to Marskal Stalin by liis friends and admirers for his birthday on Deeember 21. The only British presents so far announced are a birthday eake, made ,by the. Friends of the Soviet Union in the Isle of Wight, and a large book of signatures eontaining birthday greetings. There will, doubtless, be many more, but so far they have reeeived- no publicity. Communists in eountries behind the Iron Curtain are, howevef, preparing to be _much more demonstrative. In Czeehoslovakia, the highest point in the Tatra Moointains, the 8000-feet-high Lomnitzer-Spitze, is to be renamed Joseph Stalin Peak, and in Prague Czechs are preparing to erect a 90ft high monument to the Russian leader. Hungary has been even more expansive. There, Communists have presenfced Marshal Stalin with an entire new train whieh will leave Hungarian so.il in time to arrive in Moscow on Marshal Stalin 's birthday. The Hungarian Government also is issuing a commemorative set of Stalin stamps. The Rumanian Academv of Science) is making speeial arrangements to leave no.thing unsaid about Marshal Stalan. On his birthday the whole academy will assemble- to listen to a series of lectui'ea about the generalissimo. Oue to. be deli'vered by the president of the academy will deai with him as "leader of the world of science." Another will deal with him as the ' ' initiator of the transxormation of Nature in the Soviet," and a third as the ' 'leading military genius of our times. " The titles of other lectures will be "Stalin as the leading theoritician in the struggle for peace and brothefhood among nations," and "Stalin, the successor to. Lenin in developing 'the theory of the eonstruction of Socialism." Austrian Communists have presented Marshal Stalin with eomplete furnishings for a new study.