Russia was relaxing. The Soviet Union's First Proletarian, Joseph Stalin, set the pace. The papers reported last week: "Comrade J. V. Stalin . . . went away on leave." But, with customary caution, they did not say where he went.
It was Comrade Stalin's first vacation in four years, and he well deserved it. During the war he had labored long & hard, saving his country—and incidentally working up from Chairman of the State Defense Committee to full Generalissimo. His hair, even in official pictures, was now grey. And rumors persisted that his health was in very poor shape.
During Stalin's absence,...
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