RUSSIA: Councilor Stalin

Jugoslavia's Dictator is also her King. Italy's Dictator is Prime Minister. Poland's Dictator is Minister of War. But for seven years Josef Stalin, Russia's Dictator, whose individual authority is far greater than that of Poland's Pilsudski and fully as great as that of Italy's Mussolini, has maintained the pose of holding no office whatever in the Soviet Government. He dropped this pose last week. Further to strengthen the position of his lieutenant, "Prime Minister" Vyacheslav Molotov, successor to ousted Alexey Rykov (TIME, Dec. 29), Dictator Stalin became officially a member of the Council of Labor & Defense, one of...

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