Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-11-07
MISTER HAMMER

% Mo!otcv. That, at the time, was
hardly Il noteworthy occurrence
Yet, rs the new name, Mo!otov.
| originates from the Russian word
molot or hammer, we cGn now sec
its selected Significance.
That word hammer. or molot, is
also boldly Illustrated in the ham
mer and sickle content o: the Rus
! sian flag. II is used by communists
in all countries to signify their adj
vanced socialism.
And, entirely i'm subsequent pro-
cedure. Moloiov in 1912 Joined up
with another Russian n;imed Wis.,
Sarionovich, new Stain. or steel.
Perhaps from this distance, we car
observe this qualifications i'm names
as they We're altered.
Anyhow, these two men published
Il small newspaper on socialism.
called Pravda. Ii is st:ll published.
| tho not SO small now, neither i'm size
nor influence.
And, while Americans comfort
! tllsSed with their own local tiif-
.ficulties. Mr.. Hammer and Mr..
/ Hammer and Mr.. Steel hammered
! the steel and built an iron curtain.
That was their intention in 1912.
and il is certainly their plair in
tention 10 make that iron curtain >!
exclusion more tlulabl. in 1916 and
thereafter.
So they organized party OF
socialists, o: communists. Of Il few
hundred members. Eventually, this
BECAME thousands. now millions.
But, even today, it is not claimed
that more than six million party
members are enrolled OF The 2uC
millions OF Russian population, 10
say nothing at all OF the many other
millions Of world population these
two men are trying to control.
They control the many other mil
lions CT their people thru very
small set-up of only five men in Il
secretariat; fifteen men in an org
buro, or organizations; fourteen men
in a politburc, CT political buread
This is plus, o. course, the seven
men controlling the rcd army: the
nine or more council ministers; the
final thirty-three others (in-lusiVc
Of sixteen delegates of the sixteen
soviet republicS) who arc III the
! prcSidium. or presidency.
Now, with this more or less small
grouping, the soviet itself Of CSC
and the other nationalities house Of
63l, makes up the soviet congress-
This congress has the vast and i'm
portant duty of meeting two OF three
days occasionally. and unanimously
ratifyins what Mr. Steel and MIR.
Hammer do, ''or else.
That scr else" is net so empty as
| il sounds. For, OF the eleven men
who originally composed the polit-
buro, when Mr.. Steel and Mr.. HAM
mer entered that body in 1895, none
remain. Tomsky was Il suicide:
Kalnin and DZcrZhins!:y happily
died; Trotsky went OF Ia Mexico,
| finally, and Wa killed; Bu!tharin,
Ziroviev, Py!;o", EuGZutak. Pet
rovs!ly. Uglamov. and kam"ner
disappeared"
Mr.. Steel ara Mr.. Hammer les;
TO time in recognizing the Dolit-
| buTo TO run Russia-and, possibly,
| 10 run the rest Ct the world that is
willing Tor unwillins) to &c SO run.
In the historical Russian Krcm-
| lin Mr.. Steel and Mr.. Hammer arc
accustomed 10 take long converse
tional walk. surrounded by tbs
implements Of Russias past ana
present glory. This largely consists
of old fashioned muZZlc loading cali
noES, handsomely Ornamcntcd il
days gone by stacks of cannon balls
| (rather obsolete, wouldn't you say,
mentS of old guns and swords, plus
| in face of atoml' poWcr); Cmplacc-
| the usual man of bronze Oh horse
back.
From this set-up of centuries OF
entrcnched power, Mr.. Steel sends
/ Mr. Hammer 10 hammer away oil
the imIpenetrablc iron curtain for the
United Nations, wherever they may
| be, in New York, in Paris, or in the
proposed conservative reservation of
| Westminster Cwhere, residents in
sist, they are decidedly not wantcd).
Day after day, night after night,
Mr.. Hammer hammers away on his
job, persistcntly. Being an advanced
socialist an cX- prisoner Of the Car
from Siberia. Mr.. Hammer has
learned his lesson well. II is, simply,
TO claim all outdoors and insist on
getting in.
MIR. Hammer. really. doesn't eX-
pect to get all he claims. And nc
wouldn't get even the echo Of his
hammer blows if he was opposed
by strong men-or even one strong
man.
For, in Mr.. Hammers evolution
| from nihilism, from anarchy, fron
| /. w. W.iSn,. from socialism, from
bolshcvism, from mcnshevism. to
communism. he has acquired that
readiness of tongue and confidence
of communism which gives him free
speech in argument, amendment. OBJ
| lection, and parliamentary puSs-in-
| the-corncr. all OF which rather be-
wilders the other delegates from
countries. like our own. where that
happy play of socialistic speech is
unknown.
So, as the current peace hiatus in
terests tooacccnists. directly and in
directly. in both personal and busi-
ness relations, TOBACCO would
suggest that Mr.. Hammer be inn
mediately opposed, not by the polite
| politicians who were in Paris, but
by an impolite man who has just
as much iron in him as Mr.. Ham
mer.
| Il