THE DIMITROV LEGEND

...One of the...

...But when Zinoviev came out with the Leningrad opposition against Stslin, Dimitrov was one of the first to go over bag and baggage to the new master...

...Il seems today that this until now unpalatable truth will become more understandable in the next phase* of the war in Europe—even for those so resdily deceived sa Einstein snd Toscsninl...

...Thus, the en trs nee-price was paid...

...Pieck wrote on a piece of silk s letter faking a message taming secretly out of Berlin, that Torgler waa a traitor and that all good comrades and all friends of the German underground movement should be informed about it in time...

...That was not the case of his friend Msris Reese, a deputy of the Reichstag, who had been won over by the Communists in the last years before Hitler...

...The brilliant colors of this trial are used to cover the hideous Stalinist policy immediately before and after Hitler came to power...

...They could transliterate their names when publishing them in a foreign langaate...

...The better part of the German working class has without donbt fought bitterly and courageously for long yearn sgainst the totalitarian regime of the Nazis...

...There is my friend, Boris Nikolsevsky, who brought me for Christmss a copy of his fascinating life of "Assef the Spy...

...If a little agent has an accident and goes to prison nobody bothers about him too much...

...After his political adventures in Bulgaria, I met him 192S/2S in Moscow, where he was in exile, and like the representatives of other small countries, he was in a completely dependent and tragic situation vis-o-vt* the Russian apparatus...

...Anyway, why not all make up oar minds to use oar brains on this small, bat not unimportant, international problem...

...Indeed, ft is urgent for Stalin to have a "German tradition" ready for una...

...Mussolini got in touch with Hitler and in the midst of the trial, a secret understanding was reached: Dimitrov was to be expelled to Russis sfter the sentence...

...rVIMITROV and his two helpers returned to Rusria...

...It is therefore timely to tell all these obliging persons some |ltt)e known facts about the Dimitrov trial and the secret set up behind the dramatic scenes in the Leipzig court a • • IT is a serious misleading of the public to present * Dimitrov as a militant of the German anti-Nazi movement...

...The GPU, like all other secret services, is to a certain extent built up on a limited loyalty among the leading members of its inner ring...

...The Balkan peoples may expect from this ruthless, unscrupulous and well-trained CPU-chief a terror regime that will be another edition of the Nazi domination...

...The Gestapo immediately rushed to his cell and lost no time in gleefully taunting him with the knowledge that Dimitrov was saved and he was abandoned...

...v That was not the case with Dimitrov who was absolutely "loyal" to Stalin and who belonged to the higher ranks of the hierarchy, composed of Bulgsrs, Finns, Serbs and other "brother-nations...

...Torgler msnaged to go through the (rial without engaging in Communist propaganda or Nasi propaganda...

...Of coarse, it isn't only the Poles, it's the human rare thst is st fault here...

...he can sit for years in jail as was the case so often in Poland, the Baltic countries, and the Balkans...

...As it is well known, he played this musk until 1935/36, when the abruptly turned from Socialism to Nationalism and from Nationalism to Fascism...

...The two other Bulgarian/Communists, arrested with him, Tanev and Popoff, were his assistants...

...I met there Jacques Do riot...

...Or arc the Poles just so homesick they csn't let go of those letters, which mesn so much to them and nothing at all io as...

...Mussolini then maintained the best relations with Moscow...

...Even auch innocent liberals aa Albert Einstein, Arturo Toecanini and Van Wyes Brooks lent their names to this affair...

...If someone waa not regarded as politically reliable— then he was completely lost in case of a breakdown...

...Making the impression of a man under a terrible emotional strain, he told me the secret story of the Dimitrov trial as proof of the treacherous double-talk of Stalin and his yes-men...

...Jacques Doriot, once s young, sincere and enthusiastic pacifist and internationalist, quickly made the transition to a communist functionary, and thence to a GPU man...

...Jacques Doriot at that time waa just beginning to separate himself from the Communist Party and in the temporary stage of warm and human feelings for all shades of Socialists, for the reinstallation of "morale" in the movement, for the united front, etc...

...His mission was in appearance a "Comintern" task, but in fsct a GPU mission, dealing with the Balkans...

...Completely "forgotten" was the German Communist, Torgler...

...Dimitrov was never more than a good-looking, zero-personality...

...Many of the communist elements among the European youth were fascinated by the thrill and fascination of the secret police organisation...

...He was sent to s special residence, some time later...

...At the moment, when these Communist leaders lost the foothold in their homelands, when their movement wss beaten snd driven underground, they were mercilessly humiliated by the state-bureaucracy and the GPU-chiefs already in ascendance in Moscow...

...Is this insurmountable nationalism...

...Whst in God's nsme is the use of it...

...We knew each other quite well, in spite of our constant and sharp disagreements about all political matters, that had divided us in the years of our common activity within the Comintern...

...he was always eager and willing fur crooked deals, especially for those which would cost him nothing...

...In My Opinion "TilICRK is one tiny thing the Poles could do to improve their international situation— too tiny to mention at this desperste hour, except that it comes constantly to mind...

...In Russia they call Hannibal "Cannibal," Hoover "Goover" and Hughes "Gyeexo," although there is a perfectly good Russian letter with s sound only a trifle rongher than the English "h...

...In Moscow he was coldly left to his terrible destiny and not the alightest attempt was made to bargain him out...

...e ' a • I CAME to Paris in the Spring of 1933, fleeing from Hitler Germany...

...he was in the gloomy mood favorable to gossip...

...This meeting mustered rather important names...

...He played the leading role in the sudden turn to the policy of the popular front in 1936...

...Moscow had sent Jacques Doriot to Italy to see Mussolini, in a special rescue mission for Dimitrov...

...It is an international sink-hole, a polyglotticsl No Man's-Land filled with strange liquids— Nikola jew sky.' Of coarse, the reason for this is thst the book was first translated into Germsn...

...Torgler didn't go over to the Nasis as expected...

...in spite of all the Communist rumors, he never came out in the open for the Nasi regime, but just remained silent and kept apart from any political activity...

...There is not the slightest possible doubt that he will be one of the major Quislings in the future Stalimzed Balkans and that his role will be not only that of the Gauleiter of Bulgaria but he will be the "Ober-Gauleiter" of all the Balkan countries...

...The moat important element of one such legend concerns the "anti-fascist underground fight"—giving all the honors for the breakdown of Nasi Germany, in advance, to the Moscow amalgam of "Veteran Stalinists" and to the newly hired Prussian Generals...

...Mikolsjczyk...

...What interest is served by hiding it behind s bunch of letters that give no meaning to my mind or guidance to my tongue...

...But Pieck was s little too hasty...

...Their present premier, I am secretly informed, is Stsnislnv Mikolsichik...

...Doriot flourished in this milieu and very cleverly combined his activity as member of the Chamber of Deputies with the secret life in the service of Moscow...

...The Stalinists have never been and will never he the liberators of Germany or of the conquered countries from the yoke of the Nazi regime...

...For no better reason Paderevaki was called fadertartki ia English-speaking countries throughout his lifetime...

...The text is effectively transported into English, but the author's name seems to have got stuck somewhere in the Pripet Marshes, for it Is neither Russisn nor Polish...

...The synchronization of the different Nasi services was not yet "totslly" and perfectly completed...

...THE DIMITROV LEGEND By Ruth Fischer THE Stalinist*- arc vary busy building up legends, as political weapons in future struggles for power...

...They don't need the Dimitrov legend for Iheir justification...

...In the meantime, in London the so-called "Reichstag-Counter-Trial" was held (with the help of the "Soviet-Lord" Ma lie y. already very active as fellow-traveler...

...In 1934, he wss terribly upset by the victory of Hitler, fearing the victory of Fascism in France, fearing for his own life, his organisation and the life of his comrades...

...That ia easy to nay, snd to ssy approximately right...

...Somebody told me thst Ivan the Terrible initiated this false transliteration, snd the Russians sre still tso scared to change it...

...He feared especially a andean political collapse of Torgler snd the bod results of such s collapse on the German Communist Party organisation...

...TOILHELM PIECK, the German communist leader, waa taken into the secret...

...Hut why do I hsve to hire s detective to find out shout it...

...He waa waiting for the results is Paris, living ia a small hotel in the Quartier Latin and nervous about the functioning of the whole machinery...

...And for a like reason—because it first came through France, snd France requires sn "e" to preserve the sound of the"n"—Lenin's nsme was spelled snd pronoancsd Lenin* in this country for years, snd the error is not eradicated yet...

...The prerequisite far the coming liberation of Europe is S clarification of the role of Stalin, and the destruction or all Stalinist legends...

...he lost his mind and is now an inmate of a Brazilian lunatic prison asylum...

...This silken letter wss fabricated by his loyal secretary, a certain Emmi, but bound on the naked breast of a Gorman com rode who went to London and told the story to some specially selected persons in the best conspiratorial style of the trained "underground militant," always so fascinating to innocents...

...Doriot's job was tp win over Mussolini to negotiate with the Nazis an arrangement concerning Dimitrov and his trial...

...of coarse, reassured by the exact knowledge that the entire proceedings were pre-srrsnged snd thst his final expulsion to Russia was a certainty...

...The secret service got the order to save him and saved he was...

...Among them wore Loads Adonic, Paul Robeson and Arthur Upnam Pope, the biographer of Litvinov, and two hundred and fifty other important personalities...

...The deal was made in such a hurry that the two other Bulgarian comrades were forgotten, but the Nazis generously gave them back to the Russians too...

...For the direct help of Stalin and the Stalinists in the victory of the Nsiis over the German working class has not been forgotten by the German masses, and Wall be one of the major points of inevitable future disrussiona of the causes of Nazism and its destruction of democratic Germany...

...Jacques Doriot, in his communist period, was early •elected for secret missions of all kinds—in French Morocco, in the Ruhr district, in Alsace Lorraine, in China...

...Dimitrov was arrested in Munich, but the German Gestapo knew about his role and hia special work...

...Therefore, for preventive reasons, Pieck spread the rumor that Torgler's knees were weakening and that he would "go over" to the Nazis...

...Dimitrov waa in 1926 a moat "loyal" follower of Zinoviev...

...The fellow-travelers of the Communist Party were recently ssi i mil and in Carnegie Hall in New York to celebrate the Tenth Jubilee of the Reichstag-Fire-Trial...

...most interesting incidents of this kind ia the fate of the German Communist Arthur Ewert, who had the difficult assignment of organizing a Communist putsch in Brazil, failed, and was sent for decades to a Brazilian prison...

...he never risked a dime, but was considered in the inner circles an absolutely relisble member of the more intimate Zinoviev caucus...

...Dimitrov, aware that the Russian center would not let him down, well informed of the connections snd relstions of the Russian snd German secret police, was...

...So he could play a "coaragous and heroic" figure in the courtroom, without any real risk...

...Today Jacques Doriot is the leader of a fascist party, the "Parti Populaire Franeaia" and one of the most ardent collaborators of the Nasis...

...he could be sent on a mission to Europe, which was the most ardent desire of all Moscow functionaries...

...The glorification of Diraitrov and his "heroic stand" against Goering at the Leipzig trial is one of the highlights of the Stalinist aaga...

...and the anther forgot thst English is something else again...

...It is animportant at Goering and tint other Nasis who tossed the ball back, wore also in the secret understanding or not, for in any case tha better part of the whole scene was vary nearly a sinister faros...

...Poor Emmi had complained in Parisian cafes about the difficulty of writing on silk and found, of course, sympathetic listeners...

...Or was it Peter the Great...

...But he ployed also a leading role in the vociferous Moscow propaganda against the "war of the plutocratic powers" during the Russian-German pact...