THE ADMINISTRATION: Orders from Moscow

"By orders from Moscow the Communists are all out for a Fourth Term."

These words, which appeared in an article in the Reader's Digest fortnight ago, spelled trouble for Author Alexander Barmine, a onetime Red Army brigadier general, onetime boss of Soviet exports of autos, aviation equipment and armaments. Barmine, disillusioned with the U.S.S.R., broke with the Soviet Union in 1937, came to the U.S., where he has worked as a translator with the hush-hush Office of Strategic Services. Barmine's article said, in part:

"The 'dissolution' of the Communist party, which set so many naive minds at rest, marked the beginning...

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