RUSSIAN REALISM

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4815, 26 July 1939, Page 2

RUSSIAN REALISM

BELIEVE IN "MEIN KAMPF." "The Russian dictator is a realpolitiker and does not deal in abstractions," writes Mr. George Soloveytchik in the "Contemporary Review." "At the same time no one is better qualified than he to understand the working of other dictators' minds. "He knows the value of political programmes and manifestos. Unlike the leaders of the Western democracies, Stalin has never dismissed 'Mein Kampf as the ravings of a lunatic or the irresponsibilities of an untrained political mind with a grievance. "There can be little doubt that in Moscow Hitler's book has not only

been carefully studied and digested, but that -the Soviet authorities have from the beginning been shrewd enough to discern in it a political programme, a definite plan of world-wide importance.

"They saw that since Hilter's advent to power that programme was carried out point by point without any opposition by the rest of the world. Rearmament, the tearing up of the Versailles Treaty, the annexation of Austria, and later of Czechoslovakia, indeed, the creation of 'Grossdeutschland," the encirclement of France and the disruption of South-Eastern Europe—such are some of the developments they observed, and from which they drew the only logical conclusions.

"They did not go about repeating

ad nauseam that 'if Germany is really expansionist, that 'if she is seeking world domination, then, of course, the other Powers must consider their course of action. 'They knew from the start that Germany was both these things, and that there are no 'ifs' about it."