“BOOBIES.”

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 26 January 1925, Page 2

“BOOBIES.”

■ ♦ LENIN’S VIEW OF COLLEAGUES STATMENTS IN WILL. Dr. Krumm Helle r , a well-known writer on international affairs for-the Barcelona newspapers, has disclosed some hitherto unpublished paragraphs from the wilL of Lenin, the Bolslievilc leader. They include the following, dealing with his old comrades of the Soviet Government. In view of -the controversy arising out of a recent letter, special interest attaches to Lenin 1 opinion of Zinovieff. Kameneff is hesitating and unstable; he is an uncertain man who should be observed and spied upon (sic") constantly. Zinovieff is a talentless individual, but he is an ambitious man who, constitutes a great danger for- our party and should be closely watched in all his movements. Stallin is a silly sort of person. This man aims at being Dictator of Russia, a thing which would he a catastrophe if it were to happen. Bucharin is just as much a booby (sic) a,s Stallin ; he does not possess the slightest notions of dialectics, hut he delights in writing, although he does it so badly. Trotsky possesses considerable talent, hut lie is addicted to posing; •lie is the only one who, is destined to become leader of the Communist Party, because lie knows liow to make himself respected and to maintain discipline. One can understand the position of the Soviet Ministers on reading their portraits in Lenin’s will, and Stallin forthwith published a manifesto alleging that the great Dictator must have been insane at the moment of writing his will.