STALIN.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 March 1928, Page 4

STALIN.

I “ Strong, virile, still under fifty, this I man, who is more and more assuming . Leyin’s mantle, is moulding the new Russia to his will. lie lias given no evidence of possessing the gifts oi popular appeal that have been so great an asset to Trotsky. He relies not on personal magnetism, but on tbe strength of hi/s organisation,” writes Mr. F. A. Mackenzie in a character sketch of Stalin, the Russian leader, in tbe “ Sunday Times.” ''He has been able, since Lenin’s death, to discard one after another of the veteran Communist leaders of yesterday, stripping them of power, prestige and almost of character. Trotsky and Zinoviev do not stand alone among h:s stricken foes. Kamenev, five years ago the depute and acting Premier of the Russian Republics ; Radek. the ablest and most brilliant Rolshevist journalist; S'lliapnikov, once the most potent leader of labour: Rnkovsk.v. creator of tbe new t'kraine; Laskeviich, the soldier administrator of Western Silicrin j hosts of proletarian workers, who regarded themselves os the champions and shinin'' lmhis of ilie Communist State, have been swept aside, apparently without a qualm.”