National Affairs: Recognizable Russians

PYRAMID OF POWER. As Red Army divisions, marching 50 men abreast, sweep across Moscow's vast Red Square, leaders of the Party and the State watch from a parapet of Nikolai Lenin's glistening black and red granite tomb. When President Roosevelt made overtures last week to the Bolsheviki (a Russian word meaning "majority") he did not write to that swart Asiatic Russian, alert Josef Stalin (see S above) because the Dictator is not head of the State, but Secretary or Leader of the Communist Party, the only party permitted to exist in Russia. Instead...

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