The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-05-09
The Cherry Tree
Where We Hatchet Out
The Truth
. QUITE A BOOK
. RUSSIAN CAPONE
. STAIN THE CAR
OF ALL THE RUSSIANS

RUSSIAN CAPONE
. STAIN THE CAR
OF ALL THE RUSSIANS
For that "thin wavering line" of
fellow travellers still extant, let US rec
ommend an evening with a book by
Eugene Lyons. Eugene Lyons was
United Press correspondent in Russia.
"Stalin, Gar Of all the Russians" is
the title of his book.
This isn't the first or only book by
this bang up writer and swell observer.
He is author of Moscow Carrousel,"
Assignment in Utopia" and others.
The queer thing about this man
Lyons is that you can't pull the wool
over his eyes. He refuses to write to
order. And he won't make a petty
picture of Russia under Stain just be-
cause the New York intellectuals like
it that way.
By and large, what you get out
of this book-and don't think you
have to be book worm to get a
kick out of it's that Stain is
just another AL Capone on the
grand scale-playing with huge
empire in s t e az of a piddling
racket.
Piddling by comparison, that is.
Which is what some Americans
have thought all along.
X X x
Backed up by plenty of evidence is
this summation, quoted, "Thus Stain
is simultaneously an omnipotent czar
over one-sixth of the earth's habitable
surface, and the omnipotent director of
a fantastic conspiracy in the other
fve-sixths."
Unlimited and unrestricted dictator
in Russia, ruling the whole people;
and just as unlimited and unrestrained
in his dictatorship over the Commun-
ist International, which is the intrigue
machine operating everywhere else, in
cluding the United States.
The one rule that never is
changed is the rule demanding un-
questioning obedience.
You do what Stain says, cor else"
and the cor else' is just the same
as it is in United States gangland.
Stain is a Georgian, of a people
"tough, crafty, patient" and he is all
of those. Tough, crafty, patient and
ruthless.
One thing that Americans need
be conce erned about is that Stall
in's international i n tr igue machine
operates, not only in the United States,
but in Mexico and in every other Latin
American country, including those
that lie adjacent to the Panama Canal.
When Stain teamed up with Hitler
he didn't bother to tell his agents. in
other countries until the whole thing
was signed and sealed. He showed
his contempt for them by making them
wait and stew while they waited.
How Lyons tells that story! It's
beauty.
Lyons is fine historian as he
threads through the dirty mess
through which Stain waded as he built
his machine while Lenin lived and then
on to supremacy after the death of
Lenin. The hideous business of MAX
ing Leninism a religion so that as the
maker of that religion he might bene-
fit by its grip is we'll told-and with
plenty of fact backing.
And the miserable filth and degra-
dation that is life for so many Rus
sian millions-well, read about that.
And the four palatial residences in
the south of Russia, with several
others elsewhere-on Stalin's reputed
$50 week. They are maintained by
the nation.
Nice work if you can get it-and if
you want that kind.
There are just a few like that.
Stain, Hitler, Mussolini-w hat
racket those boys have got.
When the world understands them
as tyrants and butchers and gets over
the idea that they are statesmen, the
sooner they will be checked out.
Murder is perhaps the strongest
weapon in their arsenal, which would
house stronger weapon if there was
one.
With Stain in Russia it has been
mass murder History may record no
more horrible episode than the slaugh-
/ ter of the kulaks.
Democracy is made stronger by
such revelations as those published by
Eugene Lyons in this book.
Sometimes perhaps we forget the
value of freedom. democracy, security
under law and the chance to go to
sleep under a sky that will not cloak
the Vaccinations of government assas-
sins.
REGENTS MINIMUM WAGE