INTERNATIONAL: Wheat, Death, Reds

Other governments are merely political monopolies. The Soviet State is monopoly incarnate: political, economic, social. If some imp should pop the idea of trying to depress world automobile prices into President Herbert Hoover's head he could not order Fords and Chevrolets sold at $100 apiece. But Soviet Dictator Josef Stalin can do things remarkably like that. To understand this, to gauge the potential power of Red statesmen to work mischief in world markets, was more vital last week than to be scared by lurid rumors of Red grain dumping in Liverpool and...

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