HEIR PRESUMPTIVE
DALLIN, DAVID J.
CEast and West Heir Presumptive By David J. Dallin THE CELEBRATIONS in Moscow are over. As Stalin pompously enters his eighth decade, the personality of his potential successor draws...
...And, incidentally, this circumstance places the U.S...
...THE ONLY INTERESTING THING about the address was its structure...
...They may say: "Chambers seemed fidgety and nervous on the stand...
...Just for the fun of it, apparently, they apply for passports under false names or give wrong information when they apply for citizenship or for a dog license...
...These "partisans of peace" have hailed the civil war conducted by Communists in China and the Communist guerillas in Greece...
...Only recently hailed and eulogized as "the great statesman of the Stalin era," Molotov's name almost disappeared from the press...
...He may call you a Democrat or a Republican, a Baytist or a Bahaist, a Mormon or a Mason...
...for it has bean proved that our Soviet people axa not among the timid...
...For more than two decades he worked in the Communist party "apparatus...
...As Stalin pompously enters his eighth decade, the personality of his potential successor draws considerable attention: for nobody kiiows how soon this enigmatic personality will command the forces of international communism...
...And to all the judges and juries and prosecuting attorney we are saying that the testimony of men and women.who have had actual experience with communism is not to be received in court...
...They get out of the habit of telling the truth...
...They have remained empty words...
...He always seemed to me a straightforward, decent and honest man...
...And it was Malenkov who uttered these ominous words at the first conference of the Cominfornv "Our *T***"tff reaped us became ere era strong, and will only respect us as long as we are strong...
...In the very first sentences of his address he stressed his belief that Russia and the Soviet Union have never been as secure and safe as they are now behind their new'frontiers...
...What are Malenkov's own ideas...
...Nobody should forget that Malenkov is a hundred-percent Stalinist...
...How powerful and fatal it is becomes clear the moment we observe the cases of Mr...
...fruits...
...Communists are, practically by definition, liars...
...Chambers was sometimes uncertain about her facts...
...And now the great honor of delivering the report to the nation on the anniversary of the Soviet revolution was bestowed on George Malenkov...
...Departing from an old tradition of Soviet leaders, he spoke first about internal affairs and Soviet economy, leaving the international situation to the end...
...NOR DOES THE NOV...
...Frederic March...
...They acknowledge that they were Communists for years...
...As long as we assume this attitude toward repentant Stalinites.vwe do irreparable wrong to a large group of fellow citizens and we place our country in an embarrassing predicament...
...But because of apparent nervousness or hesitancy, observers are slow to believe them...
...He acted like a man who has a bad conscience...
...since the midtwenties he was Stalin's subordinate, his right hand in the Central Committee's "secretariat" and other party agencies...
...But the disadvantage under which the reformed Communist labors goes deeper than the party's propaganda attacks on him...
...world...
...A lot of fine, idealistic young people are swept into the Communist net...
...As of today the most likely successor to Stalin is the youngest member of the Politburo, George Malenkov...
...Chambers before he was a Communist, While he was a Communist and after he was a Communist...
...Or you will hear it said by persons who have attended the trial from the start: "How can you be expected to believe people like the Chambers couple...
...Quite a peace movement...
...Government at a crippling disadvantage when it brings Communists into court...
...Federal Courthouse on Foley Square, these courting days have been educational...
...I know men who were familiar with Mr...
...and they will hail an offensive against Tito, if ordered to do so by Malenkov's Central Committee...
...THE TRAGEDY of the ex-Communists was first brought home to me as I listened to the testimony of Louis Budenz in the trial of the eleven Communist officials...
...At this basis, he says, is not the "pacifist ideology" but a "firm determination to fight against the warmongers...
...They fabricate falsehoods even when they serve no useful purpose...
...Early in 1949 foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov was made the scapegoat for the fiasco of the Berlin blockade...
...These people, like Budenz and Chambers, are the only ones who can give us a complete account...
...Sq far he has abstained from giving any hints...
...Instead, he has tried to imitate his boss in each and every respect, even to the wearing of a gray tunic, Stalin's traditional pre-war garb...
...Malenkov pretends to know that a heavy economic depression has already taken hold of the United States...
...Whit taker Chambers...
...He still .appears to be that sort of a fellow now that he has left the followers of Stalin and is trying to explain them to his fellow citizens...
...And we are saying to them that repentance and rehabilitation are forever closed to them, that they are marked for life...
...An unknown statistical source has supplied him with a statement that industrial production in this country has fallen off 22 percent in one year...
...You can join practically any party, club, school, clique or religion and withdraw intact...
...Similar reports are made about Mrs...
...All of them agree that he is an especially honorable and reliable person...
...Inflation rules the money system in the United States, the purchasing power of the dollar has sunk, and the peool«'s standard of living "continues to fail precipitously...
...THE MALENKOV STORY is the story of a party official from start to finish—something unknown and hardly conceivable in the West...
...There is something strange about it...
...They have given me an insight into life in these United States which would never have come to me in the ordinary course of affairs...
...Unperturbed, he says that the "Socialist state does not need outward expansion...
...Here Malenkov casts, however, an interesting light upon this peculiar "mass movement for peace...
...and Mrs...
...Some may interpret this- as presagmg a leaf aggressive policy in the future, but the acts of the Soviet government, even during Malenkov's ascendancy, do not corroborate such friendly promise...
...1949 has been Malenkov's year...
...It was decided some years ago that if a man calls you a Communist you could start a slander suit...
...He repeats the old, worn out, irksome phrases about warmongers abroad, about the terrible living conditions in the non-Soviet world, about the fabulous progress achieved under the Soviet sun and in the "people's democracies...
...I knew Mr...
...The handsome actor pair asked damages to the tune of $500,000, and would withdraw their suit only after retraction had been humbly made in public...
...The curious world wonders...
...Many persons who attend the sessions of the Alger Hiss trial have a habit of saying: "Well, it's a question of the relative veracity of two men, Hiss and Chambers, and of the two Hiss sounds more as if he were telling the truth...
...They really know...
...But if you team up with the Communists you cannot escape without suffering devastating penalties...
...I wouldn't convict a man of stealing a nickel on his say-so...
...and Mrs...
...If .we refuse to believe them we are sending the Government into a life-and-death battle with one hand tied behind its back...
...WHEN YOU QUESTION these ready judges of the evidence, you find that their decision rests upon one or both of two reasons...
...He not only stressed in this way the priority of domestic over external affairs, but supplied a kind of an ideological concept for this novelty...
...But in the courtroom the eleven men on trial and all of their attorneys and supporters did their best to establish a psychological boycott of the witness...
...A man like Whittaker Chambers who has lived for years in a mesh of lies can hardly distinguish between truth and falsehood...
...He wants to make his listeners believe that these 561 national organizations are real and that they really present six hundred million organized men and women who supposedly belong to this alleged "peace moVement...
...Their very idealism makes them easy game...
...But if he ties you up with the Communists and cannot prove the connection — that will cost him money...
...The Home Front The Truth, the Whole Truth By William E. Bohn FOR THE PAST YEAR I have spent at least one day a week in court, and, as a young lady remarked to me in the lively corridor on the 13th floor of the U.S...
...In the preceding fall, by a happy coincidence, he got rid of his strongest rival Andrei Zhdanov...
...Budenz long before he started the Communist chapter, in his life...
...She hesitated and went back and corrected herself...
...It stems from the total situation...
...7 SPEECH supply any cjues to Malenkov's personality...
...The effect was to turn the mind of most unprejudiced listener against the man who was trying to tell the truth...
...Let them remember this, and not try to scare us...
...Whenever they had occasion to refer to him it would be with some such epithet as "traitor," "stooge" or "turncoat...
...Tae> week ere not r—paciad, . . . We are e mighty force already today, and this should be remembered by those who think thai our people shed their blood, made tremendous sacrifices, and wen victory In order to lot others enjoy Us...
...The other week my neighbor-column, "Heard on the Left," reported that Counterattack had been so injudicious as to use the naughty word in connection with Mr...
...he condemns policies which violate the "national sovereignty of other peoples...
...He pretends to take seriously the multitude of "peace congresses," organized by his own office throughout the...
...Chambers...
...It is a serious business...
...When he was asked to go into the audience to identify one of them they would shrink from him as if he had some contagious disease...
...He took over a number of Stalin's techniques, political and organizational methods...
...And Mrs...
Vol. 33 • January 1950 • No. 1
