The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1953-03-06
HAL
BOYLE
SAYS

and sickle have fallen from the
hands of Joseph Stain.
The great comrade" has come
to twilight on his long, bloody road
to power.
1t is superb irony that this man
whose words and actions fright
ened more people thar any other
man in history should end help
less paralytic >. unable to move
or ask for a drink of water :. a
complete prisoner o. a small group
of men in whom he held no final
trust.
What terror must seethe in his
darkened brain as strange shadowy
figures probe his numbing body
in Moscow's official medical in
QUESTION! =. what panic in his mind
as his thickened tongue refuses
to say what he wants it to say! =.
maybe he wants to give an order =.
won't anybody .. can't anybody
hear him? :. maybe it isn't an
order at all =. maybe the great
marshal doesn't want to talk about
a battle plan :. or purge satellite
country =. perhaps It last he wants
to humble prayer :. or to ask
what day it is =. or maybe his
memory wanders in the lost fields
of yeSteryear and he is inquiring
for Lenin :. or Trotsky .. the
dead friends of his dead youth =.
Whatever he wants to say, it
no longer makes any difference -.
he shares in solitude the fate he
inflicted on millions of other hui
man beings >. now he, too. is a
slave :. and, like all the others,
death is for him the only way
out :.
At this writing the Moscow gov
eminent reports him still alive.
But, true or false, it makes no
real difference. Dead or alive,
Comrade Stain is again stranger
to power.
No other figure in the human
race ever held such power :.
900, 0O0, 900 people under his direct
sway -. some 1900, 900 900 others
worried or afraid of how he would
move next.
Stain took over as a dictator
where Adolf Hitler left off :. he
knew no real peace since boy
hood :. always fighting, plotting,
scheming for the death of others.
and what does all his vast empire
come down to? =. a fight for just
one more breath :. and then an
other :. what are the Ukraine and
Poland to him now .. Manchuria
or Korea?
His sarch enemy. the Pope at
Rome, prays for his conversion =.
millions of others around the
world, less pious, would prefer to
ring church bells over his death.
Many In his own country probably
feel that way, too.
II is measure Of the schism
that Joe Stain created In the world
that In free countries people even
took his own governments an
nouncement of his illness in dis
belief.
He must already be dead. and
they are just getting ready 10 pre-
pare the Russian people for the
news" is the way many Americans
expressed II. The feeling was that
the death Of Stain, like any other
event in Soviet Russia. would be
preceded by a big propaganda
buildup.
The government announcement
was calculated to allay suspicious
that Comrade Stain was the victim
OF q secret purge plot. as we're
so many OF those around him over
the long years.
The announcement spoke Of
medical forces enlisted" 10 treat
him, but the doctors assigned this
unhappy task might better be de-
scribed as drafted " What ply
stefan in Russia wants to be known
as the one who pronounced Com
rade Stain dead7 Such an honor
certainly Is no passport to . future
rich, free life.
II was also proclaimed officially
that the treatment Of the stricken
premier is under Tire constant
supervision" Of the Central Com
mittee OF the Communist party
wouldn't Il seem odd in America
IL President Eisenhower fell Ill,
and the White House announced
The President is being treated
under the constant supervision us
the Republican National Commit.
tee. .
Wen. II took Joseph Stain y
wears 10 make his bed NDs he
lies In Il, dead Or pgobsiay dysng.
a. the rest cf the world. already
wiling 10 forget him. wonderx who
win Pick up his hammer and
sickle now in The plot against