ROUGH & DISLOYAL
CHARACTER OF STALIN. LENIN’S INJUNCTION RECALLED. “Stalin is a rough and disloyal man. Remove him from his office as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party.” This is an important part of Lenin’s political testament, one of the last documents which he wrote before a final breakdown in 1923 removed him permanently from political activity, recalls Mr W. H. Chamberlin, for years correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor” at Moscow, in reviewing a new biography of Stalin. As a thumbnail character sketch, it could not be bettered. For roughness and disloyalty, brutality and cunning are indeed the outstanding traits of character of the dictator of the Soviet Republic. The writer of this review, during hi§ last years in Moscow, personally witnessed acts of barbarity which many radicals and liberals in foreign countries, obsessed with the mirage of the Soviet Union as a humane and beneficent Socialist State, have refused to credit. Of the treachery of this Oriental dictator (Stalin is a native of Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains), the recent pact with Hitler is a most vivid and characteristic illustration.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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183ROUGH & DISLOYAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 6
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