STALIN COURTS HITLER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 207, 2 September 1939, Page 8

STALIN COURTS HITLER.

A " HATED DICTATOR."

(To the Editor.)'

The supple and well-timed movement* of a trained athlete specially excite an enthusiasm in a flabby and flat-footed sloth seated in the grandstand. Similarly, the more or less metaphysical aberrations of Marxist classwar theorists captivate untrained minds a* with poetic charm. B\it the full effect of an overdose of Moscow sales talk upon the man in the street is only seen when he struggles to reproduce it in his own phrasing. We have a beautiful example of that disaster in Mr. E. W. Harvey's lucubration appearing in a recent "Star." '"Peace, not war," is necessary to "build" a new social order. Sure! But, unfortunately, poets —that is poets of the Marxist-Fascist quality—commonly suffer from

vision of inversion. That peculiarity explains how it is that your correspondent regards Stsflin's successful wooing of war lord Hitler a* a gesture towards Peace! It also explains the mental gymnastic involved in revaluing yesterday's hated "'Fascist dictator"—Hitler— as to-day's peaceful paperhanger! Somehow it doesn't work. Mr. Harvey quite unnecessarily and feebly credits me with an intimate knowledge of his dictator hero. A distinction I shudder from. But two things I do know, in common with all who avoid the Moscow tap. They are (1) "U.S.S.R." spells Stalin, and Stalin alone: and (2) that one-man "Government"' is directly responsible for the death bv starvation of more than six millions of children, women and men in Ukraine. How manv other millions in Russia have been shot in cold blood by Stalin's ord> r. no man knows. Because Stalin i* what he is. Hitler has accepted him. And that logical union of Marxism and Fascism makes it easy for Mr. Chamberlain to marshal men of goodwill against Tyranny. HUGH McHAIGH.

The astounding Krivitsky revelations of the identity of purpose and philosophy of Brown and Red Bolshevism, now proved up to the hilt, are proving a bitter pill for Leftists to swallow, especially in view of their glib propaganda, about Russian "democracy." and ••the anti-Fascist front." It may be

interesting for those of your readers who have been following this correspondence to learn that Krivitsky, who completely established his authority and veracity in the "Saturday Evening Post" and the "Baltimore Sun," scored his greatest victory over Earl Browder. American Communist leader, who denounced the Russian general's articles as fantastic. KriVitsky retaliated by forcing Browder to admit that his own sister, under the alias of Gene Montgomery, had worked as a Soviet spv in Holland and Paris under General Krivitskv's direction in 1936 and 1937. Browder has not since disputed Krivitskv's disclosures about the union of Xazi-ism and Communism against democracy. The general has not. however, been the only writer to see that, in the face of all Left Book Club propaganda, Russian Communism and Hitlerism are the same political systems under different names. Professor Waldemar Gurian, in his "Bolshevism —Theory and Practice," Dr. Gigon, in his "Thunder Over Europe," Arnold Dunn, in "Revolutionary Socialism," Christopher Dawson in "Beyond Politics," and numerous other competent writers, have for years been pointing out that the Socialist - cry of "Anti-Fascism" has been part of the well-known "techniqna of confusion" designed to conceal the fact that Nazi-ism, and Communism are basically the same thing. In denying the validity of religion, the worth of the individual, in preaching a materialist philosophy, and in striking at everything sacred in human life and society, Germany and Russia are on the teame footing. The recent German-Soviet pact, therefore, is a natural thing, and paves the way for a line-up of totalitarianism. Brown and Red, against the real democracies. When this happens one wonders -what intellectual acrobatics the local C.P. will have to perform to brazen it out, as they are trying to do with Russia'* recent base and diabolical deception of the reallv peace-loving nations. KEREXSKY.