RUSSIA: Dogma on Democracy

After sneering openly at Democratic governments since the Russian Revolution of 1917. the Comintern or World Union of Communist Parties executed in Moscow last week a sudden about-face. Hitherto the duty outside Russia of every Communist has been to cripple his country's war-time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point...

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