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DALLIN, DAVID J.
The New Leader Book Page Political Rise of Red Army By DAVID J. DALLIN RUSSIAN YEAR. By Xevisr Pruezyntki. Th* Notebook of an Ammteur Diplomat. Roy PnbUMkere; Now York. Mr. XAVIER PRUSZYNSKI...
...Pruszynski is mistaken as to actual facts, e.g., when he relates the collective-fsrm system (kolkhozes) to the ancient Russian "mir," which in reality was an administrative unit without any collective economy...
...Every misery brought by tke war, the author states, tarns the eyes ef tke public to the soldiers and every victory endows them with aew authority...
...Free from snti-Russian bias, the Polish author describes the slowly mounting hatred against Germany and the growing national sentiments in Russia...
...Mobilizing for Abundance is designed to i < state lesding idess...
...The officers of the Red Army made the strongest impression, and what he says about the military commanding personnel ia eloquent and important...
...Now they are bolder than anyone else...
...228 pages...
...Every Russian government will hsve to use the services of this young generation ia uniform, "which grows stronger with every Rostov, Mojsisk, Staltngrsd...
...The author is one of the few observers understanding the immense significance of one of the greatest and the most tragic phenomena of wartime Russia: the migration and evacuation of millions of persons...
...We look to him end others in his group of young economists snd administrators to continue and improve efforts aimed at a popular presentation of the program ef liberalism in America...
...The banquet Was just ss sll other Kremlin banquets are: they have been often described by newspaper reporters...
...In December, 1941, the late Polish Premier Sikorski visited Moscow, and the Polish diplomats took part in a great banquet in the Kremlin...
...and Rttnia and Pott-War Europe, published by Yule Vniverrity Press...
...The blame for the defests of Russian is being placed on Its rulers...
...They do not hesitate to hint that many things will have to be changed after the war...
...but both economists have done much to mold the minds of those who are willing to help form the future...
...They hsve suffered much but I never detected in their words any sympathy for Hitler who wbr breaking down with his panzers the country which was their prison...
...In the future— "there is no other group rspsble of government except the men ef the Army...
...The immense crowds evacuated in Poland in 19.19 or tramping along the routei natittnalet of France in 1940 "were small compared to the gigantic mass of gray, shapeless humanity, slowly creeping eastward, aimless and resigned...
...It is not his purpose, however, to discuss theory...
...Soviet citi-cem in general are extremely cautioui in conversations, and so were the mem hers of the Army forces at the start of tke war...
...Take East Prussia...
...The victories sre credited to tke army...
...In a few cases Mr...
...His book, dealing with the first year of the Russo-German war, belongs among the very best of the multitude ot volumes published on Russia...
...He aims at explaining the tricornered relations between savings, employment and production to determine the character of, and justify the need for, government intervention...
...The aim of the book is to reach average men and . women in offices, shops, and on farms who are exposed to—and consequently often bewildered by—arguments which construe an issue between free enterprise and the New Deal...
...Ootid Dtttliit tt the author of Soviet Rueeia'i Foreign Policy 1939-1942...
...They invariably eriticise the Soviet bureaucracy and its overgrowth.'' Tke Army ie thei only force which had arisen in Kassis' ootside the psrty, sad daring the war it has grown ia potential influence...
...A third book it ill o;ipcni in the Frll Progressive Credo By FRANZ HAUSER MOBILISING FOR ABUNDANCE...
...OvER the years between the two world wars, liberalism developed a set ¦ of economic principles which now promise to furnish a universal dogma for politics after the war...
...They were sent to the East—Ural, Central Asia, Far East...
...They pave the way for Its accession to power...
...By Robert R. Nathan...
...The purpose of the book is to present in brief snd simple terms the economic principles which should guide our economic policies after the war...
...To reach a broad audience is a task of extreme importance...
...Among methods and measures proposed are: planned government spending, budgeting and tax policies subordinated to the end of stimulating production, and public work programs...
...Nathan is a good representative of this group...
...It is not the author's ambition to add new concepts to programs still considered novel enough to attract opposition which argues that thry are both radical and the product of campus strategy...
...But the evacuation of the war zones was not all...
...When the Russians leave their "bania" (the Russian bath-bouse) they are greeted by the wish "s liokhkim parom" (may the steam be light...
...It is here, however, that criticism has to be made...
...It must be remembered that at that time Lithuania formally belonged to the Soviet Union...
...The same thing happened in Gorki, Kazan, Sverdlovsk, Saratov...
...Nathan's formulations of key problems are often not aimple and clear enough to hold the attention of minds tired after a day of toil...
...Nathan's book is a step in the right direction...
...The book's proposals are often net forceful enough to persuade in ths face of opposition which has at its disposal ths greater part of daily papers and an imposing array of journalistic talent The plan of Mr...
...or when he seems to believe the NKVD legend that Valerian Kuibyshev, one of the top men of the party, was poisoned by the Trotskyites...
...through an unvoluntarily comical mistake Pruszynski gives it "s liokhkoi parol," which means—may your clothing be light...
...Despite his youth he has a distinguished record in civil service, interrupted only by his joining the U. S. srmed forces.—His book wss written while recuperating at an army hospital...
...But on this occasion Stalin touched for the first time the question of Eastern Prussia...
...It was by far the largest migration in Europe...
...I doubt — Pruszynski says — whether our times have seen a finer example of sacrifice of self for a great cause...
...They admit thst there sre good examples abroad...
...100,000 persons were mover...
...Whittleeey Mess...
...out from the city to make room...
...When several departments moved to Kuibyshev (Kail, 1941...
...It would be misleading to call the economic theory to which progressive forces here and in England are pledged, Keynesism or Hansenism...
...The people he saw in Russia were kolkhoz farmers, evacuees, prisoners, and Red Army men...
...Stalin's words hinted therefore at a kind of a partition of Eastern Prussia between Poland and the Soviet Union,—a plan much discussed in- London two years later, when the Interallied Advisory Committee started working on What to Do With Germany...
...I think one-half of it was inhabited by Poles and the other by Lithuanians...
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...XAVIER PRUSZYNSKI is a Polish officer and an amateur diplomat, aa ha calls himself, bat first of all he is a brilliant writer with a gift of real intuition, a virtue rare in the ranks of reporters...
...The author is frank in declaring that John Maynard Keynes has been his chief source of inspiration...
...With pride he tells the story of his countrymen who, after exile and prison in Russia, hurried to join the new Polish army in order to start a new war against Germany, arm in arm with Russia...
...In a talk with the Polish Ambassador (Prus-synski was present) Stalin tentatively began: "It happened sometimes that some nations were driven out of their original ancient territories...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 37
