Evening star., 1939-01-24
1{lY;1ERRoR!
THE STORYOFA
WORLD DicTXI0R

N6OO~JAI0N
Norvel looked at him. Some
thing has to be done," said Norvel.
And what do you think has to
be done?" said Lacoste.
THAT is the riddle" said Henning.
Merely Scaffolding.
This new world Of ours is mere
ly scaffolding-so far" said Nor
vel. "A struggle for the leadership
might bring it all down. Can we
bear to see this World Revolution
lose its headway, as the Russian
Revolution did when Stain and
Trotsky fell out? I would rather
be boiled In oil. than destroy the
work that has been done already,
that he as leader has done-the
ending Of war. peace throughout
the world"
But he himself is beginning to
destroy It," said Heming.
"They are increasing the secret
police" said Lacoste. "They have
been interfering lately with the
collection of our vital statistics.
They want to inspect the conflden-
tial answers to our questionnaires
in one or two places where they are
after people. People who have been
denounced"
THAT internal little weasel Roth
berg wants to found special COL
lege for detectives said Norvel.
What will you do about those
confidential answers?" asked Hem
ing of Lacoste.
Hold them as long as possible
and then burn them If we're
pressed"
But then your people will get
arrested"
Lacoste shrugged his shoulders.
There is no prospect Of an in
surrection-anywhere?" speculated
Heming.
Partial Instructions.
DO we want an insurrection?"
said Norvel Il don't think 50.
Partial instructions are quite pos
sible. They are probable. There's
plenty Of inf1ammatory stuff in
Islam for example. But that sort
of thing means disorder, disintegra-
ton. And as matter Of fact, and
it's more a matter Of fact every
year, the young, the masses OF
young people. white, black. brown or
yellow, everywhere, believe in Rud,
swear by him. They identify him
completely with the new world.
-" No one OF us ever foresaw
the tremendous power Of modern
mind-moulding. The old Nazi and
Soviet methods have been developed
now to a tremendous efficiency
From the infants school on. The
young don't understand how it is
with us. They would not UNDER
stand any move to limit or restrain
him. The mischief's done. do
not see how We can disentangle our.
selves from this-this tyranny with
out social disaster"
How long may he live?" asked
Lacoste. He looks pretty Ill at
times. He keeps changing his
doctors"
Hes nervous wreck" said Hem
ing. But still he may live for
years. It's mental strain with him
far more than bodily. Quite pos
sible he'll go mad"
That won't help U.s." said Norvel
grimly.
If he went quite obviously mad"
said Lacoste. so plainly mad that
We could hustle him into a mental
hospital-?"
Norvel turned to Heming with q
new idea. Even II he wasn't mad"
he said, and left the suggestion at
that.
He chooses his own attendants.
1t would be impossible" said Hem
ing, thinking 1t over.
Some accident" said Lacoste.
You mean, In one word, assassi-
nation?" said Norvel.
Tremendous Social Shock.
"Open sassination-unless it was
done by an actual certif1able luna
tic-on some personal score.
No." Lacoste shook his head. 1T
would be tremendous social shock.
Rothberg might Jump the situation.
No, I mean an accident-an airplane,
a car"
II don't care a rap for Rud. I
never did care for him." said Nor
vel. And since this Chiffan affair
I hate him. Simply and plainly I
hate him. I think the original
group laid the foundation Of all this
trouble by letting him acquire this
preposterous personal power. There
was no need for 1t. He grabbed
under their noses-and with their
consent. None Of us three were In
the original Group, and we know
nothing OF the magic Of early asso-
Citations. No. He has to go. I
don't care how he goes, so far as he
and I are concerned. Nevertheless
I will consider no way of disposing
OF him that would subject this New
World Order to stress and danger.
That's the difficulty. That's the
real problem"
But how can men of our sort
conspire?" said Lacoste. 1T has
been trained out of us. Which of
us three would be the most in
capable, If 1t came to dealing with
the First Murderer, the Second Muir
derer, and so on? Which of us
could deal with q Rothberg? We
are not that sort of stuff. We could
(see HOLY TERROR, Page B-1lJ