Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
Molotoff, Long Aide Of Stain,
Has Become Soviet Spokesman
49.Year. Old Russian Premier. Foreign Commissar
Is an old Bolshevik' With Outstanding
Achievements to His Credit
By Raym ond P. Brandt.

CTruth), to which Lenin and Stain were
also contributors. He began q CORE
spondence with Lenin, then an emigre,
and he may have met Stain at this time.
He became so enthralled by the revolu-
tionary movement that he gave up hts
formal studies and in 1918 he was again
arrested and forbidden to live in urban
areas. For three years he lodged the
Cars police while engaged in the trade
union movement.
Meanwhile the World War had broken
out and in 1916 he was caught and exiled
to Siberia. BY this time he was a pro-
fessional revolutionary like Lenin and
Stain and he again escaped While the
Cars agents were looking for him in
Russia, he attended the London confer
ence Of Communists called by Lenin, and
he met the great MARKHAM leader at the
Anglican Chapel, where the sessions were
held Stain was also at this meeting, =
and the two Leninists returned to their
native country to urge the workers and
soldiers to force peace by laying down
their tools and arms.
Led Petrograd Bolsheviks.
In February, 1917, when the proH-
sional government took over the rule of
Russia, Molotoff. then q years old, was
the leader OF the Petrograd Bolsheviks
and co-editor of the MARKHAM Pravda.
Upon Lenin's return to Russia to direct
the overthrow Of the provisional govern
ment, which occurred in November, Mo-
lotion dropped out of the spotlight and
attached himself to the ambitious Stain,
who was already quarreling with Trot-
SKY. BY 1922 he was Stains deputy on
the all-powerful PoItbureau and two
years later he became full member of
this group and helped curb the power Of
Trotsky. then ranked only by Lenin. In
this intra-party quarrel Stain was also
aided by the peasant leader Kalinin.
now the nominal President of the U. s.
S. r.
From that time until 1929 he devoted
his attention to the party and the gov
ernmental work already mentioned. As
Stain rose over his associates he took
Molotof with him. When Stain felt
himself strong enough to assert complete
dlctatorial powers. he deposed Rykof as
Prime Minister and put his old friend
Molotof in his place.
Rykof was said to be a heavy drinker
in some quarters vodka was called
"rykovka"-and Molotoff is a teetotaler.
Abstinence, however, was not the reason
for Molotoffs elevation. Stain, the DO.
htlcal boss, wanted his own man In ofIice,
and none was better fitted to carry out
mis- policies than Molotof.
Officials Gain Power.
Moloton's selection as Premier signal
lied change in the relation between
the party and the government. Up to
that time the government had been 4
mere facade for the party. All impor-
tant decisions were made within the
party and the government carried them
out. But with his own man as the ton
governmental Official, Stain permitted
the government to decide more and more
policies. This eliminated in the Con.
stitution of 1896, carefully edited bv
Stain and Molotoff, which gives the
form, If not the actual substance, of a
democratic sociaHstic state.
Lenin was Prime Minister of the n &
S. S. r., as well as supreme dictator If
the party. and many persons have WON
dered why Stain has not formally taken
over this high office. Molotoff would un. =,
doubtedly step down should the dictator
express wish for the position.
On the other hand, Moloton was once
called "czarevich," implying that he
was the heir-apparent to Stain as head
OF the party. Less and less is heard Of
this possible elevation. Those who ara
now generally mentioned are Kaeanoyich.
Voroshiloff and ZhdanofY. The last
named Is the party boss of Leninerad.
the successor Of Kiron, Stains friend,
who was assassinated in 1884.
Rise Aided BY Wife.
Moloton has been helped In his rise
to power by his clever and attractive
wife. who Is known to the Russians as
Nine. zhemchHsina, formerly q vice.
commissar Of light industry in charge Of
the perfume trust and now commissar
for the fish industry.
In q proletarian land where wives Of
diplomats, actresses and ballerinas are
usually the only persons who can AFFORD.
and politically, to 70 In for
fashionable clothes, Nine. Moloto6 ranks
IS one Of the best dressed women in the
Soviet Union. She has Travelled ex.
tensively in this country and in Europe.
Her brother, Sam Carp, head of the
Carp Export and Import Corp, came
into prominence recently when he testi-
fed before the Dies committee that h.
was 4 purchasing agent for the Soviet
Government. Carp is an American c,u..
zen.
Moloton' In his recent addresses. has
returned to the catch-phrases ana politi-
cal philosophers of the earlier Rolshe.
viks. There Is no longer talk Of a united
'front.' With the democracies. Again there
are appeals to the proletariat for =
worldwide revolution. As In thu na.t.
the Hammer, Is an eaectiys
N the hands Of Stain.