Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01

Changes in Russia forecast by Joseph
Stains action as dictator in removing
Alexis Rykoh from the post CORE
spending to premier in other govern
ments are interpreted by Americans as
proof that the Russian government Is
fully identified with Communism.
Holding no important official position
with the Soviet, Stain Is the world
leader of the Communists, and his action
is declared to mean that the driving of
laborers into a human machine and the
carrying out Of the so-called flve-year
plan will be inaugurated in earnest.
Conviction that representative gov
eminent in Russia is a towering pyra-
mid, with the man at the apex far re-
moved from the general electorate" Is
voiced by the Newark Evening News,
with the conclusion that sit is not diffi-
cult for a man in the unofficial but pow
erful position Stain occupies to decide
who shall occupy the positions" That
paper continues: Stain Is the inspiring
spirit of the industrial revolution in
Russia, the inventor of the drastic labor
allotment policy and the father of the
flve-year plan The Mensheviki were
for moderation, for taking six or ten
years to complete the f1ve-year plan,
for exporting less wheat and eating
more white bread. But now Menshevist
Rykof can join the once redoubtable
Trotsky in exile, while Stain goes alone
on his memorable way"
That the dictator has held no gov
eminent position since 1928, when he
was relieved as commiSsar OF nation
alitieS to devote all his time to duties as
secretary general to the Russian Com
munist party" Is pointed out by the
San Antonio Express, with the state
ment that he directs affairs from be-
hind the scenes" that he rarely ap-
pears at public functions or meets for
diplomats accredited to the Soviet
Union"
"Rykoff's retirement" in the judg-
ment of the Lynchburg News, removes
the last strong man under Stain and
makes the latter, for the moment at least,
absolute ruler of all Russia. TrotSky OF
the left and Rykoff Of the right wings
of the bolshevist forces are gone; only
Stain is left. With Mussolini of Italy
he stands before the world as the great
exponent, with unlimited powers within
his own realm of the doctrine Of max
ing man over into a machine, of max
ing a system of government in whose
philosophy there is not room at all for
any theories of liberty of action, liberty
Of thought, liberty of soul and in which
individuality Is submerged completely
in the mass"
'Rykoff was stripped of Office and
read out of the party" and he has
probably not share the fate OF TrotSky,"
says the Louisville Courier-Journal,
while the Scranton Times believes that
Stain us taking no chances in keep
ing in key positions men whose loyalty
TO his cause Is in any way doubtful"
The Cleveland PLAIN Dealer states:
"Lenin. were he living, would be much
too moderate for Stain, the man who
made the fire-year plan. Yet one has
become so accustomed 70 strange things
in Russia that Stain does not loom IN
our imaginations. Lenin and TrotSky
did loom most ominously. 1t will re-
quire the perspective Of generation or
more to give mankind q true estimate
of Stain"
80 long as Stain is the sole domi-
mating figure in the Moscow govern
ment, his chances of retaining his po-
sition are reasonably SAFE" remarks the
Springfield (Mass.) Union, but the
Providence Bulletin maintains that 1.-The
absence of leaders does not mean the
end of protest" but that Stain, at the
dangerous volcano In the world today"
-
"'The farce of the Moscow trial." ac-
cording to the youngstown Vindicator,
was put on q few weeks ago to win
support for the five-year dream and
quell opposition 20 Stain. Evidently it
served its purpose and prepared the
| way for Rykoff TO go. But men in
! Stains position cannot afford to be
logical. II he finds that the sufferings
of the people are endangering his own
position he is quite likely to slow up
the headlong pace at which he has been
| driving them-provided that he does
not see ruin in such a course. For the
time element is against him and the
longer the woes Of the people are pro-
tracted the more precarious the whole
Soviet scheme becomes"
"RykoR was too conservative" AYERS