Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-09
Stain S Words Law
To Russian People
And Clue 10 Future
announcements Issued
In Book Form After
Repetition in Press
last OF a Series. J
Rv HENRY c. CASSIDY

BY HENRY c. CASSIDY,
Chief Of Associated Press Bureau in Moscow
NEW YORK, March ga guide
to the Soviet Union at war, and an
outline of the postwar Soviet state.
are given by a small, paper-covered
book, issued by the Foreign Lam
euase Publishing House in Moscow
1t is j. Stain on the great pa
triotic war of the Soviet Union"
collection Of the leaders wartime
announcements.
When Stain speaks, it is not an
Idle address TO suit some passing
occasion. It is document. giving
definite directive to MS people
repeated to them over and over
again, and kept before them. not as
& thing of the past, but AS cur
rent order.
Before the war, Stains speeches.
articles and letters were collected
periodically in volumes entitled.
problems of Leninism."
During the war, his utterances
have all been published textualIy in
every Soviet periodical, and then
taken phrase by phrase, as The sub
lect for editorials until new state
ment is made. They are repeated
constantly on the radio, posted in
public places.
Translated into German. Italian.
Hungarian, Rumanian and the other
languages of the AXIS countries, they
are dropped in enemy territory in
leaflets, pamphlets and newspapers.
Assembled in Book Form.
Finally they are assembled, in the
original Russian, and in English.
French and other Allied LANGUAGES.
In book form.
The latest edition comprises his
first broadcast July 3, l94l, his
speeches November and 7, 194l, on
the anniversary Of the Bolshevik
revolution, his orders of the day
February % and May !, 1912, on Red
Army Day and May Day, his speech
OF November s. 1912, order of the
Gay November and his two letters
TO the Associated Press October 3
and November IS, 1912. His latest
order OF the day, this February %.
Will be included in the next volume.
These statements, because of their
constant repetition, provide, per
haps more than those of any ma
tional leader, a key to the thoughts
and actions of the country. Refer
ence to them makes clear much
about the Soviet Union that some
times seems abroad to be a mystery.
The dominating note is one of
rrm confidence in victory. Even in
his first broadcast, the "Scorched
Earth speech, calling on the Rus
SLAMS to leave nothing to the invader,
while the Germans we're stamped
ing into the country, Stain closed
with the slogan; Forward to vic
tory" That thought, in one form or
another, has been his conclusion
ever since.
Predicted America As Ally.
Prophetically, he said in the same
speech, lin this great war, we shall |
have true allies in the peoples of |
Europe and America" Despite diff |
ferences which have arisen since |
then particularly over the second /
front, that has remained his story.
AS the war proceeds, his orders |
become more specific: increase pro-
ouction Of tanks and anti-tank |
weapons, learn to handle these |
weapons perfectly, stif1en discipline |
and stimulate guerrilla warfare, ex-
terminate every invader, and finally. |
destroy the Nazi state, the Nazi |
Army and the Nazi new order" in
Europe.
In these announcements, there
are clues to the future domestic
status planned for the Soviet Union:
continued Soviet system, controlled
by Soviet government and Com
nunist party organs, with socialized
industry and collectivized farms.
There are indications of the Soviet
claims at the peace conference: the
Raltic states. Belorussia, Karelia and
Moldavla, all belonging to the Soviet
Union, but no aspirations to terri
tory which was outside the Soviet
fold before the war. including spe-
officially Iran and Slavonic nations
like Yueoslavia.
Aims at Non interference.
There are suggestions Of the Soviet
attitude toward postwar Germany:
destruction Of the Nazi regime. with
its army and new order, but main
tenance Of unified German people
and nation, with some sort of or
gained military force of its own.
There are signs Of the future for
eign police Of the Soviet Union: non
interference in the internal affairs
OF other nations. collaboration with
Great Britain and the United States
racial and national equality terri
torial integrity and political SOW
ereignty for occupied nations and
economic assistance in reconstruc-
ton Of devastated countries.
Given Stain as a victor. that is his
outline Of the Soviet Union Of the
future