RUSSIA: Hungry Desert

Daring, farsighted, iron-willed Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin last week unfolded yet another phase of his famed Five-Year Program (TIME, Sept. 9 et ante), designed to make Red Russia economically independent of the rest of the world by 1933. Today the Soviet Union grows in Russian Turkestan 50% of the cotton it consumes, imports the rest from the U. S. and Egypt. How much more cotton can Turkestan be made to yield? For weeks the Soviet Supreme Economic Council has been thrashing out that question with a sagacious...

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